ubuntu package management question

[Robert Heller]

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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