I'm back with a GPU.. Qt Creator still not working

Tink

@Mlibu did you install creator with pamac?

Mlibu

@Tink I did on my machines without GPUs but it doesn't install properly. When I install the Manjaro packages there are no examples or kits or anything.

Tink

@Mlibu the examples are a different package i think, on arch there is qt6-examples. I suggest installing packages with the system package manager to exclude the possibility of dependency conflicts / missing packages.

Mlibu

@Tink But there are no kits either. When I try to create a project there are no suitable kits to select. There is a desktop default but I cannot select it. I have searched the internet far and wide and I have never found clear instructions on how to make a kit.

Also I was told that the online installer was the right way to install it.

PS. I installed qt6-examples and still none.

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu just download an official versions wit kits for your target platform

Mlibu

@Ronel_qtmaster So you're saying the dependencies of Qt Creator are not enough? I must also use the other installer to install Qt6 itself?

I usually put that under my home dir. How will Qt Creator detect it?

Tink

@Mlibu For normal usage i don't see why you should not just use the package manager. It's there for a reason. With all respect, i do suspect you didnt install correctly. I never had such problems. All i can suggest is removing what you have now and using pacman or pamac to install packages like qt6-base, qtcreator, examples etc.

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu install using the official installer.All the packages required will come with it

Tink

Well let me add this from the arch wiki as my final comment :)

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance

Use the package manager to install software

Pacman does a much better job than you at keeping track of files. If you install things manually you will, sooner or later, forget what you did, forget where you installed to, install conflicting software, install to the wrong locations, etc.

Mlibu

@Tink This was a fresh install of manjaro. All I did was download the online installer and install minimum packages. I install them into /home/user/Qt.

I check next to the following:

Qt Design Studio 4.4.0
Qt 6.6.2 with only Desktop gcc checked under it
Qt Creator 12.0.2

That's it.

When I run qtcreator it does strange things. There isn't a lot I can remove from Manjaro because it needs qt6-tools, qt6-base, etc etc for the OS. And I just delete /home/user/Qt if I'm going to try a reinstall.

Tink

@Mlibu you tried the online installer, what can you lose if you try the other approach? Once you done that you can be certain it is not a wrong installation.

Mlibu

@Tink Ok but the package manager has never worked for me. I started by doing that.

No examples, no kits, and no documentation on how to set it.

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu i feel that you did not selected all the required packages while installing.could you send an image of the packages you have selected while installing?

Mlibu

@Tink I'm going to try to install everything but Qt Creator with the online installer then install creator with the package manager. There is nothing else to install in the package manager other than qt creator and optional qt modules..

Mlibu

@Mlibu

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu okay you have installed desktop kit properly.can you locate it in the installation folder?Because qt would normally have detected it

Mlibu

@Ronel_qtmaster I uninstalled and I'm reinstalling everything but qt creator with the installer right now. It will be awhile. After it's done I will try installing qt creator from the package manager again. Note that I am using the Manjaro add/remove programs. I trust that it uses the package manager behind the scenes.

I'm supposed to be executing qt creator and not qt design studio right? Then when I start QT I add the Qt Quick Designer plugin.

Thanks for the help by the way. I'm beginning to lose hope.

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu normally it should come with every packages working fine.Have you tried other versions of qt6?

Mlibu

@Ronel_qtmaster I have not done that. I will keep that in mind. I would really prefer to use the latest version though that could tell us something.

Ronel_qtmaster

@Mlibu ok but latest versions often have some problems till they are fixed and stable