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QT5 Blueprints

You're reading from   QT5 Blueprints Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394615
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First Qt Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock 3. Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick 4. Controlling Camera and Taking Photos 5. Extending Paint Applications with Plugins 6. Getting Wired and Managing Downloads 7. Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs 8. Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages 9. Deploying Applications on Other Devices 10. Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues Index

Packaging Qt applications on Linux


Things are more complicated on Linux than on Windows. There are two popular package formats: RPM Package Manager (RPM) and Debian Binary Package (DEB). RPM was originally developed for Red Hat Linux and it's the baseline package format of Linux Standard Base. It's mainly used on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and its derivatives; while the latter is famous for being used in Debian and its well-known and popular derivative, Ubuntu.

In addition to these formats, there are other Linux distributions using different package formats, such as Arch Linux and Gentoo. It will take extra time to package your applications for different Linux distributions.

However, it won't be too time consuming, especially for open-source applications. If your application is open source, you can refer to the documentation to write a formatted script to compile and package your application. For details on creating an RPM package, refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package...

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