ubuntu package management question

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:03:50PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 15:46, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > If one wants to install some program or library and knows the name of the
> > program or library how does one find out what the *package name* is?
> 
> Personally my go-to tool is Synaptic. Yes, GUI app, I'm a weenie etc.
> 
While I too use synaptic a lot it doesn't always do what the OP
wanted. If you search for the OP's 'qmake' in synaptic then it
offers:- 
    qt5-make
    qt5-make-bin
    qconf

None of these provides qmake as far as I know.  qt5-make provides
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-qmake which might actually be what the OP
wants, but I'm not sure.

If the OP really wants qmake then qtchooser is the package to provide
it (as per my other reply to this thread).

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Chris Green