From 28d17cbe838613ad00daef25b1216779b20ff859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jayceelock Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:01:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Mint install instructions for QT5.3 --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 165250e94..5f31e54a7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ Supported builds for Linux are 32 or 64-bit, built using gcc. * For Fedora: `sudo yum install qt-creator qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel qt5-qtserialport-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qtwebkit-devel SDL-devel SDL-static systemd-devel` * For Arch Linux: `pacman -Sy qtcreator qt5-base qt5-declarative qt5-serialport qt5-svg qt5-webkit` +##### Install Qt5.3+ from PPA +Note: Please be aware that the time of writing, Qt5.3 is unavailable in the official repositories Ubuntu 14.04/Mint 17.*. If it has become available since, please follow the instructions for installing Qt5.3 on Ubuntu. +* Add this PPA to your sources.list: `ppa:beineri/opt-qt532-trusty` +* Run the following in your terminal: `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qt53tools qt53base qt53declarative qt53serialport qt53svg qt53webkit` +* Next, set the environment variables by executing in the terminal: `source /opt/qt53/bin/qt53-env.sh` or copy and paste the contents to your `~/.profile` file to set them on login. +* Verify that the variables have been set: `echo $PATH && echo $QTDIR`. The output should read `/opt/qt53/bin:...` and `/opt/qt53`. + #### [Optional] Install additional libraries * For text-to-speech (espeak) * For Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get install espeak libespeak-dev` -- 2.22.0