qttools5-dev-tools: qdbusviewer - No such file

[emlinux]

Rebecca - 17.1 Cinnamon -
 Installed qttools5-dev-tools (and kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins as per Mint 17.1 release notes).

qtchooser chooses wrong path ; qt4 insead of qt5

Running command:
# qdbusviewer
qdbusviewer: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qdbusviewer': No such file or directory

ls -l /usr/bin/qdbusviewer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 14 21:11 /usr/bin/qdbusviewer -> qtchooser

find /usr -name qdbusviewer
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer
(this is correct path - program works)

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

This is how it works, and upstream does not agree to change this behavior.

Just install qt5-default and it will work fine.

[emlinux (joel-emlinux)]

On 12/27/2014 9:32 AM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> This is how it works, and upstream does not agree to change this
> behavior.
>
> Just install qt5-default and it will work fine.
>
> ** Changed in: qttools-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
It would be helpful to upgrade the dependencies so that a installation
will work correctly.

[Jacek Sandomierz (yatsek)]

Because this is one of top posts being shown in Google search for problems with qdbusviewer and they persist also on 18.04 here is the solution:

1. Find an error message. In my case (even after installing default):

    qdbusviewer: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer': No such file or directory

2. Find in which package is file being reported as missing:

    $ apt-file search /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer
    qttools5-dev-tools: /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer

3. Install found package:

   $ sudo apt install qttools5-dev-tools

Voila!