qmlscene depends on qtlocation5-dev

[Nicholas Skaggs]

If you attempt to run ubuntu-calculator-app it will fail unless you have qtlocation5-dev installed. The error is given below.

qmlscene: could not open config file '/usr/share/qtchooser//default.conf': No such file or directory

If you don't have qt5-default installed also you will get;

qmlscene: could not find a Qt installation of ''

Neither of these packages are required by the current deb.

In general we need to be wary of ensuring core apps requirements are packaged properly, and to not depend on a -dev package.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Is that issue happening on the Ubuntu Desktop?
It sounds like the calculator-app simply does not have the right dependencies.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Use:
Depends: qmlrunner | qtchooser, qmlscene

In saucy you can also use simply:
Depends: qtchooser, qmlscene

and run the qmlscene command like 'qmlscene -qt=qt5 file.qml'.

qtlocation5-dev pulled in qtchooser via qtbase5-dev, but qtchooser is the one providing the symlinks.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

To update this bug, in saucy the issue should be resolved without any packaging changes, so please ignore the previous comment :)

But you will need to either call qmlscene like 'qmlscene -qt=qt5 app.qml' or have QT_SELECT environment variable set to 'qt5'.