Ubuntu 14.04 Qt5 development libraries?

Question

I want to build applications requiring Qt5 via CMake.

Which libraries do I have to install to achieve that?

What I have tried so far is searching for anything containing qt 5 core and dev, but have turned up empty:

apt-cache search qt | grep dev | grep core

only returns

libtulip-dev - Tulip graph library - core development files

The only thing seeming half-way to fit is "libqt5core5a", but installing that doesn't provide any development libraries...

Do I need any additional repositories? The ones from Kubuntu maybe?

Searching the web didn't yet give me any proper answers too (probably not the right keywords, I know, but :o). I e.g. found this question: What package do I need to build a Qt 5 & CMake application?, but there is no qtcore5-dev package in trusty repositories it seems...

Edit: Upon further experimenting, I did have qmake installed, but the 4.8.6 version (qt4-qmake). Trying to install the 5.x version brought no joy, though - (sudo apt-get purge qt4-qmake && sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake) - qmake now reports:

qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake': No such file or directory

Is there something broken in the repositories here?

Answer 1

Seems

> apt-file search Qt5CoreConfig.cmake

was what I was missing. This got me

qtbase5-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfig.cmake

Installing that seems to lead to CMake finding Qt5. qmake still reports the same problem when directly called though...some remnant from qt4 still installed it seems...

Edit: As for the qmake problem, this is fixed by

sudo apt-get install qt5-default

Answer 2

1) Where is your qtchooser configuration file?

$: locate qtchooser | grep conf

2) From the list of conf files, probably there is one call "default.conf" This one is a link to one of the others (4.conf or qt4.conf or 5.conf or qt5.conf). Choose the one that makes sense too you, and create a link to it.

Suppose your default file path is

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt-default/qtchooser/default.conf

Create backup: $: cd $(dirname /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt-default/qtchooser/default.conf) $: cp -av default.conf default.conf_backup

Let's say you target is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qtchooser/qt5.conf

Then: $: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qtchooser/qt5.conf default.conf

3) Is the path to your qmake right?

Check qmake location $: locate qmake | grep bin

Is the same one as indicated in your modified qtchooser/default.conf? $: cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qtchooser/qt5.conf

If the answer is YES, then you are done. If the anser is no, then you need to modify the file:

Create backup:

  $: cd $(dirname /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qtchooser/qt5.conf)
  $: cp -av qt5.conf qt5.conf_backup

Edit file and change path to your qmake location

  $ sudo vi qt5.conf

Now it is done.