How To Install qtchooser on Fedora 34

qtchooser is Wrapper to select between Qt development binary versions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtchooser on Fedora 34.

What is qtchooser

Qt Chooser provides a wrapper to switch between versions of Qt development binaries when multiple versions like 4 and 5 are installed or local Qt builds are to be used.

We can use yum or dnf to install qtchooser on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qtchooser.

Install qtchooser on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install qtchooser using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtchooser

Install qtchooser on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install qtchooser using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtchooser

How To Uninstall qtchooser on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the qtchooser package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qtchooser

qtchooser Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/profile.d/qtchooser.csh
/etc/profile.d/qtchooser.sh
/etc/xdg/qtchooser
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/890164f05f322cfa8f3ed8cb77c94e0134a33f
/usr/lib/qtchooser
/usr/lib/qtchooser/assistant
/usr/lib/qtchooser/designer
/usr/lib/qtchooser/lconvert
/usr/lib/qtchooser/linguist
/usr/lib/qtchooser/lrelease
/usr/lib/qtchooser/lupdate
/usr/lib/qtchooser/moc
/usr/lib/qtchooser/pixeltool
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qcollectiongenerator
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdbus
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdbuscpp2xml
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdbusviewer
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdbusxml2cpp
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdoc
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qdoc3
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qglinfo
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qhelpconverter
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qhelpgenerator
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmake
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qml
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qml1plugindump
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlbundle
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlmin
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlplugindump
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlprofiler
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlscene
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmltestrunner
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qmlviewer
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qtchooser
/usr/lib/qtchooser/qtconfig
/usr/lib/qtchooser/rcc
/usr/lib/qtchooser/uic
/usr/lib/qtchooser/uic3
/usr/lib/qtchooser/xmlpatterns
/usr/lib/qtchooser/xmlpatternsvalidator
/usr/share/licenses/qtchooser
/usr/share/licenses/qtchooser/LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt
/usr/share/licenses/qtchooser/LICENSE.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/qtchooser/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/share/man/man1/qtchooser.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtchooser on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.