Bug#685526: Error: Qt version is not properly installed
Hi Qt/KDE team,
I confirm this problem.
Indeed QtCreator doesn't seem do be able to find the Qt libraries unless
g++ is also installed (which stands to reason when you think about it).
But the surprising part is that g++ is not installed along QtCreator by
default.
What's more, the error message one gets when g++ is missing ("No valid
Qt version found. Please add a Qt version in Tools > Options > Build &
Run") and the subsequent error message ("Qt version is not properly
installed, please run make install" as the previous poster pointed it
out) are hardly any help.
The correct way to install a full working Qt development environment
seems to be through the qt-sdk package (which depends amongst other
things on qtcreator and build-essential, thus g++).
I believe this problem could be solved by adding either g++,
build-essentials or qt-sdk to the Recommends list of the qtcreator package.
Users who have not modified their APT::Install-Recommends configuration
would then get it by default.
Just having g++ in the Suggests list as it is currently looks a bit
useless to me, with respect to the intended goal of the whole QtCreator
environment.
In my humble opinion it would make sense to go with the full blown
Recommends:qt-sdk dependency because QtCreator really is a Qt
development environment at its core, so why not just drag in the full Qt
SDK?
Users who want to use this IDE for other purposes could just ignore the
Recommends section.
Thanks for your attention.
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