Do I have to pay to update Qt tools since now? [Solved]

[Cold_Distance]

Hi, I tried to check the updates from the Maintenance Tool and when I try to login it shows the next message.

No valid license available in your Qt Account for this host platform.

Please renew your license(s) from Qt Account.

I filled the form that appears after clicking on the link, but I don't get anything.

[mrjj]

mine says the same after i updated the Maintenance tool. must be some kind of bug.

[Cold_Distance]

It seems you're right. Qt replied me in a post in Google+.

I hope it's repaired soon (if it's really a bug), because that bug left me really disappointed.

[mrjj]

@Cold_Distance
well
reading about v-play at
http://planet.qt.io/
let me to think that you can just download v-play yourself
from
https://v-play.net/download/
first line says
"Note: If you already installed Qt 5 on your system, you can skip this step and follow the instructions here."
but seems to want me to make a profile when clicking "here" so do not know what you will get in there.

Thanks for updating this q.

[Cold_Distance]

In Add V-Play to your existing Qt installation section of this webpage I saw a possibility to install V-Play.

I don't know if I can do it with the current Maintenance Tool, although the impossibility to update the Qt official tools is something that worries me too.

Well, I will continue as I can programming with Qt.

[Cold_Distance]

Well, I saw that I can run the Maintenance Tool has super user trough the console.

I will become the owner of full Qt stack.

[mrjj]

so if you run it as root, it works ?

[frankiefrank]

I had this issue with the maintenance tool (the message about no valid license). I used to have an account on the Qt website but I didn't log in for a while.

I tried to log in to the site. https://account.qt.io/ and I think I created an account with my existing e-mail address. I think that after that, running the maintenance tool worked for me as expected.

[mrjj]

@frankiefrank
Thanks for your. i tried logging in but still wont let use the tool.

[Cold_Distance]

@mrjj

Yes, doing "sudo" directly on the executable of Maintenance Tool (I use Kubuntu/Ubuntu) it worked perfect.

Now I removed Qt Open Source and I installed V-Play, that installs the full Qt stack, and I put it in a subfolder in my own home folder to not have issues with permissions.

I recommend not install Qt in /opt, but in home folder.

[mrjj]

ok so you solved it :)

I ended up upgrading to 5.5 and the M. tool start working again.

[vlada]

I'm now facing this same problem with the latest Maintenance Tool (updated April 6th, 2017). What should I do?

All I can get is the message:
No valid license available in your Qt Account for this host platform.
Please renew your license(s) from Qt Account.

[mrjj]

@vlada
And there is not a skip button ?
or a way to ignore it ?
Note if there is a skip button but its grey,
remove any text form email etc edit fields.

[vlada]

Thanks, I didn't notice that I can skip it. I was always using my Qt account.

[mrjj]

@vlada
well if u have a commercial licence that the right thing to do but if you are using open version then
skipping should be just fine :)