[Interest] invalid Qt packaging heads up

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 21:19:51 CEST 2018


Well, that's why you should be using the online installer and install 
official Creator and Qt builds locally.

Relying on a distro packaged Creator or Qt libs always gave me issues.


On 13/09/2018 16:49, Roland Hughes wrote:
> All,
> 
> Ran into this in PinguyOS, but, probably goes all the way back to 
> current Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> In Synaptic Package Manager one can find
> 
> libqt5webengine5
> libqt5webengine5-dev
> libqt5websockets5
> libqt5websockets5-dev
> libqt5webenginewidgets5
> 
> but there is no libqt5webenginewidgets5-dev
> 
> This means any program, even the Qt 5 examples which includes
> QT += webenginewidgets
> in the .pro file cannot be cleanly loaded in QtCreator
> Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: webenginewidgets
> 
> It also means none of them can build. This is probably helped out by all 
> of the qt -examples now being separate files so missing pieces can slip 
> through easier.
> 
> See attachment for WebEngine Widgets Simple Browser example screen shot. 
> Not only is the -dev library missing, but the example packaging has 
> broken dependency since it needs to list ___ALL___ dependencies, 
> especially the ones required to compile the example.
> 
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