[SOLVED] Qt Creator; help tab delivers 404

maschelsea · 01-28-2018, 12:27 PM

I'm trying to sbopkg -i qbs and it's failing, because

Code:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "minimal"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Makefile:537: recipe for target 'qch_docs' failed
make: *** [qch_docs] Aborted

qbs:
Would you like to continue processing the rest of the
queue or would you like to abort?  If this failed
package is a dependency of another package in the queue
then it may not make sense to continue.

(Y)es to continue, (N)o to abort, (R)etry the build?:

I'm thinking that I need to manually pass in the minimal flag to sbopkg, but I don't know how to do that. I am trying, but it's so hard to learn ANYTHING. Maybe I'm trying to start at the wrong place...

ponce · 01-28-2018, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maschelsea

I'm trying to sbopkg -i qbs and it's failing, because

Code:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "minimal"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Makefile:537: recipe for target 'qch_docs' failed
make: *** [qch_docs] Aborted

qbs:
Would you like to continue processing the rest of the
queue or would you like to abort?  If this failed
package is a dependency of another package in the queue
then it may not make sense to continue.

(Y)es to continue, (N)o to abort, (R)etry the build?:

I'm thinking that I need to manually pass in the minimal flag to sbopkg, but I don't know how to do that. I am trying, but it's so hard to learn ANYTHING. Maybe I'm trying to start at the wrong place...

I think that error may happen probably because you installed qt5 not from SBo but from some binary repository and you haven't installed also all the dependencies (or you have installed it from SBo without all of the dependencies).
beware mixing binary repositories with SBo, it can lead to unexpected consequencies...

maschelsea · 01-28-2018, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

I think that error may happen probably because you installed qt5 not from SBo but from some binary repository and you haven't installed also all the dependencies (or you have installed it from SBo without all of the dependencies).
beware mixing binary repositories with SBo, it can lead to unexpected consequencies...

I have NOT installed ANYTHING from non-Slackware sources. I don't particularly like binary packages. I use them because I was told that they are the Slackware way. I prefer to build packages from source. In which case I would ./configure -prefix=/opt.

ponce · 01-28-2018, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maschelsea

I have NOT installed ANYTHING from non-Slackware sources. I don't particularly like binary packages. I use them because I was told that they are the Slackware way. I prefer to build packages from source. In which case I would ./configure -prefix=/opt.

on your installation what is the output of the command

Code:

ls -la /var/log/packages/{qt5,libinput,libwacom,libxkbcommon}*

maschelsea · 01-28-2018, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

on your installation what is the output of the command

Code:

ls -la /var/log/packages/{qt5,libinput,libwacom,libxkbcommon}*

Code:

root@caitlyn:~# ls -la /var/log/packages/{qt5,libinput,libwacom,libxkbcommon}*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9830 Jan 28 13:44 /var/log/packages/libinput-1.8.3-x86_64-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9698 Jan 28 13:44 /var/log/packages/libwacom-0.27-x86_64-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4436 Jan 28 13:43 /var/log/packages/libxkbcommon-0.7.1-x86_64-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488738 Jun  6  2017 /var/log/packages/qt5-5.7.1-x86_64-1_SBo

ponce · 01-28-2018, 03:36 PM

it seems that your qt5 has been installed before of its dependencies, so you better rebuild it to let it pick them up.

maschelsea · 01-28-2018, 03:46 PM

I'm doing that now. I've been waiting for it to finish for the past two hours. While I'm waiting, is there a way to pass options to sbopkg, so that when I order rebuilds/upgrades through sbopkg, it knows what options I've previously ordered? Also, sbopkg's man page didn't say anything about how to update packages from the CLI. Is there a way to do that? I mean something like

Code:

sbopkg -update-all

maschelsea · 01-28-2018, 10:56 PM

This one is [SOLVED] though not quite what I was expecting. It serves me right, though, for having expectations in the first place...

bassmadrigal · 01-29-2018, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maschelsea

I'm doing that now. I've been waiting for it to finish for the past two hours. While I'm waiting, is there a way to pass options to sbopkg, so that when I order rebuilds/upgrades through sbopkg, it knows what options I've previously ordered? Also, sbopkg's man page didn't say anything about how to update packages from the CLI. Is there a way to do that? I mean something like

Code:

sbopkg -update-all

sbopkg does not remember how you built previous packages. It doesn't log them at all. However, if you use queue files, you are able to add options to that and have it remember them along with the dependencies that were built at the same time.

Have a look at sbopkg's queue file wiki page. Long story short, you'd edit (or create) the program's queue file (sqf extension), typically found under /var/lib/sbopkg/queues/. This lists all the programs that would need to be built, in order, ending with the final package. Any options you want to pass would be after the program's name, followed by the pipe symbol "|" with the options and their values. The following queue file would be for qt-creator and enables all options for qt5. You could save the file as /var/lib/sbopkg/queues/qt-creator.sqf and then run sbopkg -i qt-creator and when it asks if you want to build the queue or the package, you would select q for the queue.

Code:

libwacom
libinput
libxkbcommon
qt5 | DOCS=yes EXAMPLES=yes PROPRIETARY_CODECS=yes
qbs
qt-creator

You can generate this queue automatically using sqg -p qt-creator, and then you need to manually edit the /var/lib/sbopkg/queues/qt-creator.sqf file to add the options for qt5.

Geremia · 06-19-2021, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j12i

You should have made a new thread

See this thread.

j12i · 06-21-2021, 06:34 AM

You should have made a new thread, in my opinion.

I would try running the SlackBuild until before the ./configure call, and then asking the configure script what options it supports. Like in line 173 insert

Code:

configure -help
exit 1

(untested).

If the configure scripts supports such an option, you would also have to rename the resulting package (change PKGNAM=qt5 at the start of the SlackBuild, or if you forget just rename the package before installing).