Qt installation link broken

[ynikitenko]

I can't install kiwix-desktop because of qt.
I run kiwix-build --target-platform native_static kiwix-desktop.

It already has icu4c, it downloads zlib, but fails for qt:

prepare sources icu4c :
download icu4c : SKIP
extract icu4c : SKIP
patch icu4c : SKIP
prepare sources zlib :
download zlib : OK (3.4s)
extract zlib : OK (0.1s)
patch zlib : OK (0.0s)
prepare sources qt :
download qt : Sha256 for qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz not set, do no verify download
OK (2.2s)
extract qt : ERROR
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/kiwix_build/bin/kiwix-build", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/init.py", line 80, in main
builder.run()
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/builder.py", line 197, in run
self.prepare_sources()
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/builder.py", line 107, in prepare_sources
source.prepare()
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/dependencies/base.py", line 125, in prepare
self.command('extract', self._extract)
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/dependencies/base.py", line 76, in command
ret = function(*args, context=context)
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/dependencies/base.py", line 121, in _extract
name=self.source_dir)
File "/opt/kiwix_build/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kiwixbuild/utils.py", line 215, in extract_archive
archive = tarfile.open(archive_path)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/tarfile.py", line 1578, in open
raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully

I find the archive at ./ARCHIVE/qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz.

file ./ARCHIVE/qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz

./ARCHIVE/qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

This seems to be really an HTML document, not an xz file. I'll try to download the correct file from internet (it will take a while). But it seems that the link to qt source must be fixed somewhere in the code.

[ynikitenko]

Yes, manual download of the .xz archive solved this problem (so now I can continue with new ones).

[kelson42]

The file is not served anymore :(

[ynikitenko]

I must add that proper qt 5.10 .xz file didn't work too (with other errors, #430). Maybe it would be worth to change the link directly to qt 5.13 (as it is proposed in #403). I'm downloading the archive for 5.13.2, but it will take several hours with my mobile connection to check if that works.

[kelson42]

@ynikitenko Yes, we will move really soon to qt 5.13, but this is not trivial to do that properly.

[ynikitenko]

I tried to install with qt version 5.13.2. I had to rename the .xz file to qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz (so that the installation script worked).
But it returned a lot of ld errors like

/usr/bin/ld: /opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/qml/QtQuick.2/libqtquick2plugin.a(plugin.o): in function QtQuick2Plugin::~QtQuick2Plugin()': plugin.cpp:(.text._ZN14QtQuick2PluginD2Ev[_ZN14QtQuick2PluginD5Ev]+0x2a): undefined reference to QQmlQtQuick2Module::undefineModule()'
/usr/bin/ld: /opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/qml/QtQuick.2/libqtquick2plugin.a(plugin.o): in function non-virtual thunk to QtQuick2Plugin::~QtQuick2Plugin()': plugin.cpp:(.text._ZN14QtQuick2PluginD2Ev[_ZN14QtQuick2PluginD5Ev]+0x71): undefined reference to QQmlQtQuick2Module::undefineModule()'
/usr/bin/ld: /opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/qml/QtQuick.2/libqtquick2plugin.a(plugin.o): in function non-virtual thunk to QtQuick2Plugin::~QtQuick2Plugin()': plugin.cpp:(.text._ZN14QtQuick2PluginD0Ev[_ZN14QtQuick2PluginD5Ev]+0x39): undefined reference to QQmlQtQuick2Module::undefineModule()'
/usr/bin/ld: /opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/qml/QtQuick.2/libqtquick2plugin.a(plugin.o): in function QtQuick2Plugin::~QtQuick2Plugin()': plugin.cpp:(.text._ZN14QtQuick2PluginD0Ev[_ZN14QtQuick2PluginD5Ev]+0x79): undefined reference to QQmlQtQuick2Module::undefineModule()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Makefile:74: ../../bin/qml] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/tools/qml'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:153: sub-qml-make_first] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative/tools'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:73: sub-tools-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/kiwix_build/kiwix-build/BUILD_native_static/qt-5.10.1/qtdeclarative'
make: *** [Makefile:237: module-qtdeclarative-make_first] Error 2
Stopping build due to errors

So a simple change of the version doesn't work. I won't open a separate issue for that, because the proper version seems to be 5.10 (even though I couldn't install that). Anyway in the meantime I downloaded an old version of kiwix-xulrunner, and it works great, so my personal battle is finished for now.