[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #901: Problem with Gambas upgrade when systems upgrades from qt4 to qt5 (on Debian)

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at ...626...
Mon Mar 7 04:34:35 CET 2016


On 03/06/2016 08:00 AM, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 03/05/2016 08:43 PM, bugtracker at ...3416... wrote:
>> This is done because qt4 will no longer be used in stretch (so to make sure the qt5 packages are used instead)
>> Gambas3 (3.5.4) is packaged to use qt4. This seems to cause the problem with upgrading 3.5.4 to 3.8.4
>>
>> So, what is a possible solution here?
>> 1. Does the packager have to change something in his/her control file and repackage? If so, what needs to change?
>> AND/OR
>> 2. Is there maybe something that can be done from within Gambas to solve the problem?
>
> I am also interested in this issue since I think it may be related to why I am unable to install the IDE on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1.
>
> Just for informational purposes since I do not wish to highjack this thread, the SPEC file from the OpenSUSE Build Service
> defines a "gb-qt5-ext" component as required for the IDE when not "with qt4". But, as far as I can tell, this component is not
> provided by the sources.
>
> Hopefully a resolution to this issue on Debian will also provide a path to resolve the issue on OpenSUSE.
> Ref: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=969744
>
> System: KDE Plasma 5.5.4, Qt 5.5.1, x86_64
>
>

Update: The OpenSUSE problem was just a SPEC file issue.


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