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qt on linux 22.04
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:10 am
by TassyJim
I have user who has been happy with my application until he tried Ubuntu 22.04
Bad news. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new (2'nd hand) laptop, and the flavour was Ubuntu 22.04. All my previous installs where Ubuntu 20.04.
In 22.04 the qt5-default library does not exist anymore (the WebKit is stille there). For some reason Debian has dropped the qt5-default, and therefore Ubuntu does not provide the qt5-default anymore.
I had too many problems using GTK and qt has been much better for me, until now.
Are there any workarounds I can try?
Linux packages are not something I can get my head around at the best of times.
Jim
Re: qt on linux 22.04
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:04 pm
by moulder61
HI TassyJim,
I don't use Ubuntu myself, but if you give me some more details I could do an install just to test it out.
I tend to use the GTK toolkit, but I know that KDE/Plasma recently went to version 6 and I think qt is up to version 6 too?
Is there a qt6-default library that could be used instead?
This may or may not be relevant, I'm just thinking out loud.
Give me a shout if you want me to experiment at all. I like to try to help the Linux community.
Moulder.
Re: qt on linux 22.04
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:35 pm
by mk-soft
Re: qt on linux 22.04
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:17 pm
by TassyJim
Thanks for the link.
Reading it, all we should need is "sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev"
I asked him to install the full developer packages(as listed in the easy install thread) and that worked so I will have to set up a clean VM to test.
Linux doesn't seem to be very good at backwards compatibility.
Jim