Qt 5 runtime as content snap
This snap is to be consumed by various Qt apps that require Qt5 runtime. This snap will auto-connect and provide for an application published by keshavnrj. Other Developers who want to use this as their base can explicitly ask to auto-connect their app snap from store admin by writing a forum post in snapcraft forums.
- Qt libraries and runtime is provided by Official Ubuntu Focal Fossa repositories.
- There are few more packages which are used by consumer of this content snap like:
- mpv, ffmpeg, socat, wget, xclip, coreutils
- The consumer snaps need to launch their apps using the provided desktop-launch script or atleast use this in their command chain. One example consumer of this content snap is olivia, read the snap/snapcraft.yaml file in olivia's repo to see how to consume this snap as runtime.
- Current consumers of qt5-core20 content snap are listed and updated here
- While committing this line to the readme, the daily active users count for this Qt551 content snap is ~58,814 devices as reported by the Snapcraft metrics dashboard. This snap will replace the Qt551 snap gradually.