Hi Lorne! Thank you so much for the explanations.
I have tried Rivendell on Centos 7 using the Paravell repositories too. Works fine although I used set some things slighty different in the old times (rivendell 2 over ubuntu 10.04, I think) It's a pity QT has to be rewritten upon a new version, it would be amazing if it was backward code compatible. Yesterday I tried myself compiling Rivendell 3.4 using Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 10.6 (buster). Ubuntu fails at compile time and Debian fails at install time. I didn't get time to get deeper. Ubuntu 20.04 really seems very harder due QT4. I have found an unofficial repository with QT4 packages but I could not find libqt4-sql-mysql. :( Regards Fernando Della Torre (16) 98137-1240 Em seg., 23 de nov. de 2020 às 23:20, Lorne Tyndale <[email protected]> escreveu: > 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 >
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