qt4 deb packages for jammy

[annaborn]

Hello Sylvain @doudou !
do you plan to create qt4 deb packages for jammy like it was done for focal (http://ppa.launchpad.net/rock-core/qt4/ubuntu/pool/main/q/)?

[doudou]

Yes, I do. I actually already did, but haven't tested yet.

Getting the whole toolchain compatible with 22.04 will come back to TideWise's list of top-level things to do starting next week.

[annaborn]

If you would like, you could upload the debians and I could test them in my rock setup.
I already started to install rock-core under 22.04 and fixed some issues (you have probably seen my other MRs), until I came to the point with qt4.

The general plan is to test rock under 22.04 with qt4 and than same setup under 22.04 but with qt5.

[annaborn]

@doudou
Hello Sylvain! Would you please also add qt4 debs for jammy arm64 arch? Also it would be great if there will be qt4 for focal arm64 in ppa. Thank you in advance!

[annaborn]

@doudou
Hello Sylvain!
I am not sure, if you have read my previous message. :) So I would like to ask again.
Would you please add qt4 debians for ubuntu 20.04 and ubuntu 22.04 for arm64 arch?

[doudou]

Hi @annaborn

I did see the message, but forgot about it.

I really don't have the time to do it now. Or, more exactly, would have the time to produce the packages but not to test them.

You could try to build them yourselves using the source packages in the 20.04 PPA. The general pattern is:

• add the source package (add-apt-repository add the URL in the source files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, just uncomment)
• download the source package with apt-get source, e.g. apt-get source libqt4-dev. It will also unpack the package
• cd in the unpacked source
• run apt-get build-dep .
• run dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
• Install the resulting packages (.deb files in the parent folder)

I'm really not sure these packages will work on arm64. Would you be willing to try amd64 on jammy as well ? That would be helpful ...

[annaborn]

Hello Sylvain @doudou.

I built qt4 for 20.04 arm64 couple of month ago. :) If I remember it right, I tested the qt4 package than in my workspace and it was working. I will take a look again.

I can also build qt4 for 22.04 arm64 and amd64. I also tried to build qt4 for debian. But there were some issues and I did not have time to take a look into it.

I will be next week on holidays. After my holidays I will work on it.

If I will have ready qt4 for u20 arm und u22 arm and amd, would will be a procedure to make them available for everyone?