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Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl

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On 11/17/20 2:41 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-11-17 at 16:27, Fred wrote:
> 
>> On 11/17/20 1:27 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
>>
>>> On 2020-11-17 at 15:21, Fred wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also looked into compiling the source code which is often as easy as
>>>> following some simple instructions.  The compile makes use of qmake
>>>> which gives the error:
>>>>
>>>> qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake': No such
>>>> file or directory
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/qmake is a link that points to /usr/bin/qtchooser which is
>>>> picking the wrong version of qt.  Qt5 is needed and is installed.  I
>>>> have set an environment variable QT_SELECT=qt5 but the chooser is not
>>>> fooled.  So, if the binary is not usable how do I select qt5?
>>>
>>> I think you have the qtchooser syntax wrong.
>>>
>>> 'man qtchooser' says that the value passed to QT_SELECT is the same as
>>> that which would be passed to 'qtchooser -qt='. Testing that, I get:
> 
>>> $ QT_SELECT=4 qtchooser -print-env
>>> QT_SELECT="4"
>>> QTTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin"
>>> QTLIBDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
>>>
>>>
>>> IOW: the value you need to pass in is '5', not 'qt5'.
>>
>> Hi,
>> You are quite right.  I don't see from the man page how one is required
>> to tell qtchooser to set the environment variable instead of doing it
>> oneself.  In a hurry I didn't notice the option -qt=version.
> 
> AFAICT, you don't need to tell qtchooser to do it. As the test still
> quoted above shows, if you just set QT_SELECT and don't specify -qt=,
> the other settings will be adjusted to match.
> 
> The practical necessities depend on exactly what is being invoked and
> how, but it seems to me that if the build system is in fact calling
> qtchooser, then setting QT_SELECT=5 should make it use Qt5.
> 
Hi,
qtchooser -qt=5 -print-env    does change to 5

qtchooser -qt=5       does not change the version.  Some command needs 
to follow.

qtchooser -print-env     shows "default"

To compile clipgrab:  qmake -qt=5 clipgrab.pro & & make
qmake is a link to qtchooser.

Best regards,
Fred

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clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-17 21:30 +0100
  Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-11-17 21:30 +0100
    Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-17 22:30 +0100
      Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-11-17 22:50 +0100
        Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-18 03:10 +0100
  Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-17 21:30 +0100
    Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-17 22:20 +0100
    Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-17 22:40 +0100
  Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-11-18 15:00 +0100
    AppImage files (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl) Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-18 15:10 +0100
      Re: AppImage files (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2020-11-20 03:30 +0100
    How to run AppImage file (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl) Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-25 20:20 +0100
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        Re: How to run AppImage file (was: clipgrab as alternative to  youtube-dl) Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-25 22:10 +0100
        Re: How to run AppImage file (was: clipgrab as alternative to  youtube-dl) Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-11-25 22:20 +0100
          Re: How to run AppImage file (was: clipgrab as alternative to  youtube-dl) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-25 22:20 +0100
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          Re: How to run AppImage file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-11-26 17:30 +0100
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