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KevinH · 03-27-2015, 02:50 PM

I would NOT get it from the distribution maintainers as many linux distributions are stuck at Qt 4.7 or 5.1 and are not using Qt 5.4. Some changes in Qt 5.3 or 5.4 are needed to both prevent crashes and to actually operate properly. For example, in Qt 5.3 or Qt 5.4 toStdString and fromStdString now automatically use and assume utf-8 for the encoding. In earlier Qt version this changed with locale and other things.

So I would simply build my own after downloading the very very latest Qt 5.4.1 or use one of DiapDealer's very nicely provided and up to date Linux builds.

03-27-2015, 02:50 PM	#9
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,904 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	I would NOT get it from the distribution maintainers as many linux distributions are stuck at Qt 4.7 or 5.1 and are not using Qt 5.4. Some changes in Qt 5.3 or 5.4 are needed to both prevent crashes and to actually operate properly. For example, in Qt 5.3 or Qt 5.4 toStdString and fromStdString now automatically use and assume utf-8 for the encoding. In earlier Qt version this changed with locale and other things. So I would simply build my own after downloading the very very latest Qt 5.4.1 or use one of DiapDealer's very nicely provided and up to date Linux builds.