How to update Qt Creator

szerwi

Hi. I have Qt Creator 4.1.0. How to update to 5.8.0? I must download program again or can I update it?

mostefa

Hi @szerwi

There is no Qt creator 5.8 version

Qt 5.8 is the version of the SDK

I think that the latest version of qtcreator is 4.2

If you want to update your qtcreator or your qtsdk under windows you can do it ,

From Qt Maintenance Tool

Run Qt Maintenance Tool , then choose update components

Then you can try Qt creator , or qt sdk version to update

szerwi

@mostefa Where I can find this tool?

mostefa

@szerwi said in How to update Qt Creator:

@mostefa Where I can find this tool?

Are you using windows ?

It is the path when you installed qt

for me it's

C:\Qt\MaintenanceTool.exe

Or just START MENU and type maintenance

Qt Maintenance Tool Should appear

szerwi

@mostefa I don't have this :/ I remember that I have some problems when installing Qt :/

mostefa

@szerwi said in How to update Qt Creator:

@mostefa I don't have this :/ I remember that I have some problems when installing Qt :/

How did you install qt?

Maybe it is better to install a new clean version of qt

You Can download qt online installer from this Link

https://www.qt.io/download/

Then you Can choose the component to install

szerwi

Yes, I'm downloading new version. Unfortunately I didn't have any button to uninstall Qt so I've only deleted folder from computer :/

mrjj

@szerwi
That should do it :)
There was not an Qt uninstall "button" in the control panel for "Remove program" ?

szerwi

@mrjj said in How to update Qt Creator:

There was not an Qt uninstall "button" in the control panel for "Remove program" ?

Yes, I didn't have that.

mrjj

@szerwi
Ok. so it had issues.
If you are using Avast scanner. Please disable it while installing.
Sometimes it fux it up.

szerwi

@mrjj I'm using AVG. Should I disable it?

mrjj

@szerwi
Well not seen AVG be in the way. So should be fine.

I only mention Avast as it did it 3 times for me on different pcs.
The last time, it would stall the .exe when i tried to debug. (silently)
And its not to say bad about Avast. Simply its very effective but now it append tag to window
when being deep scanned so not so secretly.
But the online installer is a bit sensitive and might give a fake timeout if timing is perfect and Avast locks the file in the right moment.

szerwi

I am installing Qt and I have an error: https://scr.hu/8hat/q05yo
What should I do now?

mrjj

@szerwi
Hmm. seems not to be the normal timeout install error.
More like file write error.
The path looks a bit strange after the Qt there is

Qt\/Tools/

which look odd but not that for sure - it is the issue.
Do you have had disk errors or anything like that in other programs?

Also if the online keeps borking you could try
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.7/5.7.1/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_64-5.7.1.exe
(this assumes you already have visual studio 2013 installed)

szerwi

@mrjj said in How to update Qt Creator:

Do you have had disk errors or anything like that in other programs?

No. Should I ignore it and let it continue?

mrjj

@szerwi
Yes if possible

szerwi

@mrjj I got one more error. After few minutes another two errors. Is there any repair tool for Qt that I will be able to run it after installation?

mrjj

@szerwi
Yes there is the maintenance.exe tool
Found in c:\qt
It can update etc so should get missing files.
But if some scripts are not run as it should , i think it might fail to work.
Error might be due to registry still being there but folder is gone. (was)

szerwi

@mrjj Ok, I'll try after installation. Do you know how to clear registry? I had about 5 more errors since last reply :/

mrjj

@szerwi
Oh it dont sound good with errors.
I have not seen any clean tools.
Since you can normally have multiple Qts installed, i fear that
the image of the failed command is used for adding it.
Im "excited" to see if it can find your visual studio after.