P.S.: Feeling sheepish... Reading Frederics answer I tried the .run again.
No idea what I did wrong yesterday, this time a Qt window popped up, asking me where I want the Qt 5.4 installation to be put. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks again! Cheers, Markus. On 02.05.2015 15:11, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 05/01/2015 08:28 AM, Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: >> I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, >> Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have >> several options: [...] >> >> What would you do? > > 5. Install the packages from experimental. > > If you really want to be on the safe side, you can do the following to > make sure it's just Qt 5.4 from experimental and nothing else: > > A. Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list (or similar name) > with the following contents (if you already have unstable in your > list, just add experimental): > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian unstable main > deb http://http.debian.net/debian experimental main > > (You can use your default mirror here instead of http.debian.net, if > you so desire.) > > B. Pin unstable and experimental packages to priority -1 by default, > so that they can't be installed by accident. Do this by creating > /etc/apt/preferences.d/01experimental with the following contents: > > Package: * > Pin: release n=experimental,o=Debian > Pin-Priority: -1 > > Package: * > Pin: release n=sid,o=Debian > Pin-Priority: -1 > > (IMPORTANT: leave out the 2nd one if you are already using unstable, > else no packages from unstable will be upgradable!) > > C. Selectively pin the Qt5 packages to a higher priority (500 is > usually what you want) so that they are taken from experimental. > > You can do this in two ways: make _any_ version of the packages from > experimental be installable or just make the _current_ version from > experimental installable. The former has the advantage that if there are > further bugfixes in newer Qt5.4 versions while it still isn't in > unstable, apt will automatically be willing to upgrade to those > versions. It has the disadvantage that if a really new and really > experimental version of Qt5 is uploaded to experimental at some point in > the future, APT will automatically choose that one. > > The priority 500 is chosen in such a way that it's the same as the > default package priority of stable/testing/unstable, so that if one of > those suits starts to contain a package with a higher version number > (for example, Qt 5.4 is uploaded to unstable with some additional fixes > at some point in the future), APT will be willing to upgrade that. > > In any case, create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/50qt5.4 with the > following contents: > > For making any version that's currently in experimental installable: > > Package: libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 > libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5printsupport5 > libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-mysql libqt5sql5-odbc libqt5sql5-psql > libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5sql5-tds libqt5test5 libqt5widgets5 > libqt5xml5 qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dbg qtbase5-dev > qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev-tools-dbg qtbase5-doc-html > qtbase5-examples qtbase5-examples-dbg qtbase5-private-dev > Pin: release n=experimental,o=Debian > Pin-Priority: 500 > > For choosing the specific version that's currently in experimental: > > Package: libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 > libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5printsupport5 > libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-mysql libqt5sql5-odbc libqt5sql5-psql > libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5sql5-tds libqt5test5 libqt5widgets5 > libqt5xml5 qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dbg qtbase5-dev > qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev-tools-dbg qtbase5-doc-html > qtbase5-examples qtbase5-examples-dbg qtbase5-private-dev > Pin: version 5.4.1+dfsg-2 > Pin-Priority: 500 > > (You can include the line breaks in the package list as long as the > continuation lines start with a space. The packages listed here are all > the binary packages that Qt5's source package.[1]) > > D. Test that your pinning works. Run apt-get update to update your > package lists and then try out: > > apt-cache policy libqt5-core5a > This should print 'Candidate: 5.4.1+dfsg-2" to show that APT would like > to install that version of the package. > > Then try another package in experimental, e.g. libkf5config-dev (not in > unstable/testing yet): > apt-get policy libkf5config-dev > This should print 'Candidate: (none)' to show that even though a version > is available, APT doesn't want to install it, because you pinned > experimental to -1. > > E. Finally, run apt-get upgrade / install of the Qt5 packages you want. > > Christian > > [1] Taken from: > https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/qtbase-opensource-src > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5544e396.4040...@markuskoch.eu
