Libertine container now installs Qt5 by default

idj

Hello everyone.
Since Libertine container installs Qt5 by default, I can no longer install Scribus and LMMS. Audacity is another issue, but it doesn't neither run (it crashes after splash screen), as Dia does.
Moreover, I've been able to run Dia with QTerminal (amomg others more) which normally would crash on launch.
Will there be an update on either side? (App or Qt)

Thanks for any help, regards.
Have a nice day

arubislander

@idj Not sure what update you are hoping for. Packages available in Libertine are mostly those that are in the Focal repos as such. They are not maintained by the UBports project

idj

@arubislander said in Libertine container now installs Qt5 by default:

@idj Not sure what update you are hoping for. Packages available in Libertine are mostly those that are in the Focal repos as such. They are not maintained by the UBports project

I see, thanks. I was hoping I could install a newer LMMS or Scribus version, or that the Qt would be downgraded back

idj

@arubislander uhm, reading again at this topic, I did some messing up with my argumentation.
The point is that overnight the Libertine container started to include Qt5 in the "base" setup, making it impossible to install LMMS, Scribus and Audacity (among others).
What I hope for is to have back the option to install such packages (so an updated version of them, supporting Qt5) or to have back the "good old" container, with Qt4.

Does this make sense now?

In the previous post I then digress that Dia runs if opened from QTerminal, in the same window as the terminal itself, and I don't know if Audacity does too.

Sorry for the confusion.

Regards

arubislander

@idj no confusion. The answer is still the same. The deb packages that are available to be installed are those of the focal repos of Ubuntu. Unless you go adding PPA's (do so at your own risk) those the versions you are stuck with. They will get updated, or not, with as the Ubuntu (not UT) repos maintainers see fit.

I doubt the reason some of the packages that ran on Xenial don't run on Focal is a QT mismatch. More likely they don't play well with UT's XWayland implementation.

idj

@arubislander I don't understand, so we have Focal repos for container initialization, but Xenial repos for package management? (in Xenial)
Or is Focal repo missing an updated LMMS package etc?

arubislander

@idj no, we have focal containers with focal packages on UT 20.04 and xenial containers with xenial packages on UT 16.04

I am assuming you are comparing the two when you mention things not working suddenly.

arubislander

@arubislander but reading back I realized I never asked you what version of UT you were on.

I assumed that since you mentioned Qt 5.15 you were on Focal.

idj

@arubislander no, I'm using Xenial and, in Xenial, overnight, Libertine container started to install Qt5 instead of Qt4.
This used to happen in eg when installing OpenShot, but shouldn't be the default.
Due to this, I can no longer install LMMS, Scribus and Audacity in Libertine (Xenial), as I can't downgrade Qt, but the day before I was able to install such packages.
What happened then?

Edit: by the way, I made it to manually remove Qt5 and install Qt4.

arubislander

@idj said in Libertine container now installs Qt5 by default:

What happened then?

Probably a change in the package dependencies. Maybe a package was added in the base install that pulls in Qt5 as a dependency.

Since 16.04 is out of support, the repolish had to be updated to point at the UBports repos.

arubislander

@idj said in Libertine container now installs Qt5 by default:

Edit: by the way, I made it to manually remove Qt5 and install Qt4.

When you uninstalled Qt5, did you notice any particular application package also being uninstalled that wasn't obviously Qt5 related?

idj

@arubislander I didn't pay much attention to be honest

arubislander

@idj No matter. Glad you got it to work as it did before.