ubuntu package management question
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Dec 11 15:47:52 UTC 2020
At Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:11:23 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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).
But qtchooser is installed and wants to use qt4's qmake (which is not actually
installed). I think the qtchooser package is either broken or there is some
additional magic. I did install qt5-make, but I need to specify the full path
(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake) as this *appears* to be only way to
run it.
>
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