Hi Fernando, I can't speak for the developers or QT5, but from what I understand the current Version 3 branch will be staying with QT4. Changing to a newer version of QT would be a significant update to code, so I would not expect to see migration to QT5 (or higher) until a Rivendell Version 4 branch.
Having said that, if you want an easy to install and update experience, the best option is to grab CentOS7 and install Rivendell from the Paravel repositories. You can find instructions on this here: http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install-rd3/rivendell-install-rhel7.html I've done this and it really is a very smooth and easy installation. Furthermore when a new version comes out the command to update is very easy: yum update rivendell Otherwise if you want to run Rivendell on something else, then you're pretty much on your own to compile it or rely on others in the community and use their binaries (such as the Raspberry PI distribution). Rivendell does compile and run on Ubuntu 18.04 based distributions (and probably the version of Debian that 18.04 is based on, although I have not tried this). I've actually started putting together some directions on how to compile on 18.04, I'm hoping to post these sometime this week on the wiki. Ubuntu 20.04 might be more of a challenge due to its default QT packages being QT5. I've seen some posts about repositories that contain QT4 for 20.04. This might be a way to get Rivendell to run on 20.04, but I admit that I have not tried this so I don't know how well it'll work. Lorne Tyndale > > > Hello folks. > > I've been away for a while and now I've tried to compile Rivendell using > some up to date distro like Ubuntu 20.04 or Mint 20 with no success at all. > It complains about QT4, specially about libqt4-sql-mysql. > > I'm not a dev (I wish I was) but as far as I understand QT4 it is being > retired. > Is there any Rivendell release using QT5 or any newer equivalent ? > > I know it's easy to say and hard to do, but surely Rivendell would have a > larger visibility if it were packed in 2 or more flavors, like RPM and DEB > pointing to all dependencies it needs and ready for the modern distros, > whether Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, Centos 8, etc. Every time in the past > I had to complite from source and every update was a kind of a pain. > > As I said I wish I was a dev, but I'm just a sysadmin. > > I really appreciate the effort of the entire community working on > Rivendell. Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > Fernando Della Torre > > +55 (16) 98137-1240<hr>_______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
