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Camilo Febres
Camilo Febres

Reputation: 111

Problem installing qt5-default on Ubuntu 22.04 - needed to install IQmol

While installing IQmol is relatively easy in ubuntu 20.04, with Ubuntu 22.04 there is a problem with the qt5-default package that seems to have been updated for this new LTS version of Ubuntu.

In the manual it says the following, after downloading iqmol_2.14.deb from their website: "#> sudo dpkg -i iqmol_x.x.x.x.deb #> sudo apt-get install -f``` The second command is required to resolve the dependency on the Qt libraries, which you may not have installed."

From the first command the error is as follows: "dpkg: dependency issues prevent iqmol configuration: iqmol depends on qt5-default; however: The qt5-default package is not installed. dpkg: error processing iqmol package (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured. Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ... Errors encountered while processing iqmol"

And from the second: "The following packages will be REMOVED: iqmol 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/N]"

I have searched, unsuccessfully, for a way to install qt5-default manually on Ubuntu 22.04, but I still don't see how.

Please, someone who can point out the step-by-step. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2244

Answers (1)

Camilo Febres
Camilo Febres

Reputation: 111

After waiting, unsuccessfully, for a while for the Ubuntu 22.04 repositories to allow installing the old version of qt5-default, I got the idea to install IQmol for Windows (iqmol.exe) via Wine.

Indeed that was the best option and solution to my problem. I totally recommend it.

Upvotes: 0

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