Which package provides qmake on Fedora?

Question

I'm having trouble determining the Qt package that provides qmake on Fedora 31. I already installed qt5-designer qconf qt5-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qttools qt5-qttools-devel (and dependencies).

$ dnf search qmake
Last metadata expiration check: 5 days...
============================= Name Matched: qmake ==============================
mingw32-qt5-qmake.x86_64 : Qt5 for Windows build environment
mingw64-qt5-qmake.x86_64 : Qt for Windows build environment
============================ Summary Matched: qmake ============================
qconf.x86_64 : Tool for generating configure script for qmake-based projects

qconf.x86_64 was installed but does not provide it.

$ dnf provides qmake
Last metadata expiration check: 5 days...
Error: No Matches found

Sorry about this lame question. I can usually find the package on my own.

Which package provides qmake on Fedora 31?

The following works as expected on Debian and Ubuntu. It fails on Fedora 31.

qt-ui$ qmake && make -j 5
bash: qmake: command not found...
Similar command is: 'make'

And:

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description:    Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)
Release:        31
Codename:       ThirtyOne

What does `dnf provides '*/qmake'` show for you? – rickhg12hs Dec 18 '19 at 22:59 — rickhg12hs, Dec 18 '19 at 22:59

TomH · Answer 1 · 2019-12-18T17:13:39.010

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The easy way to find out is often just to try installing the file you want:

sudo dnf install /usr/bin/qmake

but in this case that won't work because the literal answer to your question is that nothing does - rather qmake-qt5 is provided by qt5-qtbase-devel and qmake-qt4 is provided by qt-devel.

So rather than running qtmake you will need to run one of those, depending on whether you are trying to build for Qt 4 or Qt 5.

edited Dec 18 '19 at 17:13

answered Dec 18 '19 at 08:51

TomH

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Thanks @Tom. I believe the tool name is `qmake`, not `qtmake`. – jww Dec 18 '19 at 13:14
It seems that `qmake` is really installed via `qt-devel`: `rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qmake qt-devel-4.8.7-45.fc29.x86_64` Note also that you may need to adjust your PATH to find qmake there. – Yaroslav Nikitenko Apr 02 '20 at 10:42
Changing the PATH so it can find the qmake executable is probably the answer most people are looking for: `export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin`. IIRC this is necessary on Fedora 36, but not in Fedora 37. In Fedora 36: `$ dnf provides /usr/bin/qmake qt6-qtbase-devel-6.2.3-2.fc36.i686 : Development files for qt6-qtbase` and `$ dnf provides /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake qt5-qtbase-devel-5.15.3-1.fc36.x86_64 : Development files for qt5-qtbase`. – fedelibre Dec 10 '22 at 08:57

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '21 at 07:25

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Based on an earlier answer: https://superuser.com/a/1510943/631374

On Fedora 34 it is sudo dnf install qt6-qtbase-devel for QT6.

answered Jul 07 '21 at 07:25

JoKalliauer

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It's awesome, directly installed qmake and qmake6 on my desktop without any issue. – gaurav Nov 20 '21 at 07:52

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 04 '20 at 14:35

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Try this way:

qt-ui$ qmake-qt5 && make -j 5

edited May 04 '20 at 14:35

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answered May 04 '20 at 12:49

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Welcome on the SU! I formatted your answer, but I suggest to explain, why `qmake-qt5` helps while the ordinary `qmake` does not. Copy-paste answers don't look very well. – peterh May 04 '20 at 14:36

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 11 '21 at 04:26

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On Fedora 33 I had to use sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel to be able to use qmake-qt5.

answered Apr 11 '21 at 04:26

Joe Schroedl

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 24 '20 at 00:37

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On Fedora 32, it is qt-devel and qt5-devel for Qt4 and Qt5, respectively.

answered May 24 '20 at 00:37

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Looks like it calls the binary `qmake-qt5` – Qwertie Jun 19 '20 at 23:32

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