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Getting Started with Qt 5

You're reading from   Getting Started with Qt 5 Introduction to programming Qt 5 for cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956030
Length 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Installing Qt on Linux

The Ubuntu operating system makes it reasonably easy to install Qt 5. Issue the following commands to set up your box:

sudo apt-get install qt5-default

After the installation, Qt programs will be compiled and run from the command line. In Chapter 6, Connecting Qt with Databases, we will illustrate how to connect to the database using Qt. Issue the following command to ensure that the relevant libraries are installed for Qt to work with. The database that will'll connect to is MySQL:

sudo apt-get install libqt5sql5-mysql

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Getting Started with Qt 5
Published in: Feb 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789956030
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