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C.Xammar
C.Xammar

Reputation: 167

How to run Qtcreator from terminal in Ubuntu?

Hi I have QtInstalled with the official qt installer (I haven't used the package with the name "qtcreator").

I need to run QtCreator from terminal but I can't locate the executable.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 43109

Answers (4)

Robin Hsu
Robin Hsu

Reputation: 308

Latest QtCreator should by default be installed in 

 ${HOME}/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/

And you have two start-up options, the executable qtcreator or the shell script qtcreator.sh

To run the executable, type

~/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator

To run the shell script, type

~/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator.sh

Whic one to use: From the top portion of qtcreator.sh, it states that if you have library name conflicts (such as having same library names used by qtcreator with your own LD_LIBRARY_PATH), you may want to start with the shell script, rather than the bare executable.

Upvotes: 5

Doki41
Doki41

Reputation: 174

For me it wasn't in the /opt directory, but rather the location I've chosen in the /home/user/ directory. More specifically: /home/user/Qt5.12.1/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator

Upvotes: 0

Jiří
Jiří

Reputation: 525

Windows linux subsystem users

In case you have ubuntu as a subsystem for win10, it's located in your AppData folder (installing with sudo apt install command): Also, you cannot run qtcreator from terminal as graphical interface is not supported by defeault. You need to instal X-server app first (https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) and then you can run QT from terminal.

C:\Users\[YOUR_USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\usr\share\qtcreator

Or, it's in usr/lintian/overrides

But you should not modify anything inside this linux root, as it may lead to data loss.

Upvotes: 1

newbie
newbie

Reputation: 64

Probably you can find the executable in opt directory the location will be as this /opt/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin and you can run it through terminal as ./qtcreator

Upvotes: 5

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