Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

On 11/14/2017 07:24 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 15/11/17 16:11, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > On 11/14/2017 12:58 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> > > On 15/11/17 04:48, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > > > $ designer
> > > > designer: could not exec 
> > > > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/designer': No such file or 
> > > > directory
> > > > $ assistant
> > > > assistant: could not exec 
> > > > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/assistant': No such file or 
> > > > directory
> > > qtchooser is defaulting to a version of qttools5-dev-tools that you 
> > > do not have. You should be able to change this by setting QT_SELECT 
> > > or by editing/symlinking the qtchooser configuration file 
> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt-default/qtchooser/default.conf . "man 
> > > qtchooser" for details.
> > Thanks!  That did it.  Ijust changed the first line in the config 
> > file from:
> >      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin
> > to:
> >      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin
> > All is good, now.
>
> Great! Although you should note that Michael Biebl's suggestion to 
> install "qt5-default" will do the same thing but be robust against 
> package updates (I like his advice more than mine).
>
> Kind regards,
But it wants to install 25 packages in addition to itself and take up 
29.8MB.  That seems excessive to do something that I have already 
aqccomplished with no additional packages.


Marc