[Qt-interest] Linux deployment

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Segunda-feira 7. Setembro 2009, às 20.56.55, Info escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering what is the accepted/common way to deploy QT apps on
> Linux, I've finally cracked OSX deployment but have no clue where to
> start with Linux as I've only ever installed applications via source
> or Yum/Apt. So how would I deploy an application with Qt libraries on
> a Linux platform?

Hello

Usually, you don't do the work of the deployment on Linux. You just release 
the source and let Linux distributions package it.

If releasing the source is not an option for you, or if you want to create 
deployment, there are a couple of options:

1) create a binary installer, like we've done for the Qt SDK. See the BitRock 
installer, for example. Another one is the Loki installer (the one that Google 
Earth uses).

2) create .deb and .rpm packages for the most common distributions. You can 
use the OpenSUSE Build Service (for open source apps only) to create the 
packages for most distributions for you, not just OpenSUSE -- you won't have 
to install and maintain them.

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