====== Installation of the QElectroTech development version on Ubuntu/Mint ======

{{:doc:logo_ubuntu.png|}} This document describes the procedure to install the development version (0.51) of QElectroTech on Ubuntu (Nightly builds).\\
The stable versions of QElectroTech under Ubuntu : 0.4 for Wily, and 0.5 for Xenial are available directly from the official Ubuntu repositories (use the Software Center or Synaptic).

===== PPA Ubuntu 0.60 version=====

This PPA provides 32 and 64 bits packages of the stable version for the distributions Xenial, Wily, Vivid and Trusty.

[[https://launchpad.net/~scorpio/+archive/ubuntu/ppa|QElectroTech PPA]]

[[http://ppa.launchpad.net/scorpio/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qelectrotech/]]

==== Add the PPA repository ====


<code>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:scorpio/ppa</code>







==== Ubuntu pinning ====

The following entry assigns a high priority to all versions of the QElectroTech package beginning with 0.60. : \\
This way, your system will download the higher package version from the ppa and not those from the official Ubuntu repositories. 

Create manually the file  40qelectrotech-devel  in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ and add these 3 lines:

<code>
Package: qelectrotech*
Pin: version 0.60.*
Pin-Priority: 1001
</code> 

Then, update the cache of your system: <code>sudo apt update</code>



==== Installation ====

<code>sudo apt install qelectrotech qelectrotech-data qelectrotech-examples</code>
That's it, QElectroTech should correctly be installed. Run it via the command “qelectrotech”. \\ If your desktop environment follows the FreeDesktop.org standards, QET \\ should also appear in its menus and the .qet and .elmt files should be opened by default by QElectroTech.


===== PPA version 0.9-dev =====
This PPA provides 32 and 64 bits packages of the current development version for the distributions Xenial, Artful.

https://launchpad.net/~scorpio/+archive/ubuntu/qelectrotech-dev

<code>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scorpio/qelectrotech-dev
</code>

Pinning upgrade (sed):

<code>
sudo sed -i 's/'"version 0.80.*"'/'"version 0.90.*"'/' /etc/apt/preferences.d/40qelectrotech-devel
</code>

Then, update the cache of your system: <code>apt-get update</code>



==== Installation ====

<code>apt-get install qelectrotech qelectrotech-data qelectrotech-examples</code>