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Installing Qt VCP Qt Designer Plugins
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Installing Qt VCP Qt Designer Plugins

Fist, you need to be using Python 2.7 and PyQt4

To install PyQt4 I ran

$ sudo apt-get install python-qt4-dev

Open a root file browser and navigate to (replace x86_64 with your machine's architecture)

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/designer

Make sure the folder contains a file named libpyqt4.so.

Navigate to linuxcnc/lib/python/qtvcp/plugins/ and link qtvcp_plugins.py to ~/.designer/plugins/python

$ mkdir ~/.designer/plugins/python -p
$ ln -sf $(pwd)/qtvcp_plugin.py ~/.designer/plugins/python

Or, if you prefer

$ sudo ln -sf $(pwd)/qtvcp_plugin.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/designer/python

If you are using a RIP run . scripts/rip-environment and then launch Qt Designer

qtchooser -run-tool=designer -qt=4

This same procedure seems to work for Qt5

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