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Mastering Qt 5

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Qt 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Packaging for Linux with a distribution package


Packaging an application for a Linux distribution is a bumpy road. Because each distribution can have its own packaging format (.deb.rpm, and so on), the first question to answer is: which distribution do you wish to target? Covering every major packaging format would take several chapters. Even detailing a single distribution could be unfair (you wanted to package for RHEL? Too bad, we only covered Arch Linux!). After all, from a Qt application developer perspective, what you want is to ship your product to your users, you do not (yet) aim to become an official Debian repository maintainer.

Having all this in mind, we decided to focus on a tool that packages the application for you for each distribution. That is right, you do not need to learn the internals of Debian or Red Hat! We will still explain the common principles in the packaging systems without excessive detail.

For our purpose, we will demonstrate how a packaging can be done using...