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Install Instructions
- Dependencies
- Linux
- OS X
- Windows
| Name | Version | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Qt | >= 5.3.0 | core, gui, network, opengl, sql, svg, widget, xml |
| GCC/MinGW | >= 4.8 | C++11 enabled |
| toxcore | = 0.1.* | core, av |
| FFmpeg | >= 2.6.0 | avformat, avdevice, avcodec, avutil, swscale |
| OpenAL Soft | >= 1.16.0 | |
| qrencode | >= 3.0.3 | |
| sqlcipher | >= 3.2.0 | |
| pkg-config | >= 0.28 |
Optional dependencies
They can be disabled/enabled by passing arguments to qmake command when
building qTox.
If they are missing, qTox is built without support for the functionality.
Linux
Auto-away support
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| libXScrnSaver | >= 1.2 |
| libX11 | >= 1.6.0 |
To disable: DISABLE_PLATFORM_EXT=YES
KDE Status Notifier / GTK tray backend
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| Atk | >= 2.14 |
| Cairo | |
| GdkPixbuf | >= 2.31 |
| GLib | >= 2.0 |
| GTK+ | >= 2.0 |
| Pango | >= 1.18 |
To disable: ENABLE_SYSTRAY_STATUSNOTIFIER_BACKEND=NO ENABLE_SYSTRAY_GTK_BACKEND=NO
Unity tray backend
Disabled by default.
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| Atk | >= 2.14 |
| Cairo | |
| DBus Menu | >= 0.6 |
| GdkPixbuf | >= 2.31 |
| GLib | >= 2.0 |
| GTK+ | >= 2.0 |
| libappindicator | >= 0.4.92 |
| Pango | >= 1.18 |
To enable: ENABLE_SYSTRAY_UNITY_BACKEND=YES
Linux
Simple install
Easy qTox install is provided for variety of distributions:
Community builds
There are community builds for wide range of distrubutions:
| Link | Distros | Architecture |
|---|---|---|
| OBS | Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu | x86, x86_64 |
| Ubuntu PPA | Ubuntu | arm64, armhf, ppc64el |
For release version, install qtox. To get latest changes, install |
||
qtox-alpha. |
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#### ArchPKGBUILD is available in the community repo, to install:
pacman -S qtox
qTox is available in Gentoo.
To install:
emerge qtox
qTox SlackBuild and all of its dependencies can be found here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/qTox/
#### FreeBSDA qTox port is available at net-im/qTox. To build and install qTox:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/qTox/
make install
If your distribution is not listed, or you want / need to compile qTox, there are provided instructions.
Most of the dependencies should be available through your package manger. You
may either follow the directions below, or simply run ./simple_make.sh after
cloning this repository, which will attempt to automatically download
dependencies followed by compilation.
Install git
In order to clone the qTox repository you need Git.
#### Arch Linux ```bash sudo pacman -S --needed git ``` #### Debian ```bash sudo apt-get install git ``` #### Fedora ```bash sudo dnf install git ``` #### openSUSE ```bash sudo zypper install git ``` #### Ubuntu ```bash sudo apt-get install git ```Clone qTox
Afterwards open a new terminal, change to a directory of your choice and clone the repository:
cd /home/$USER/qTox
git clone https://github.com/qTox/qTox.git qTox
The following steps assumes that you cloned the repository at
/home/$USER/qTox. If you decided to choose another location, replace
corresponding parts.
If you use stable, you have to add backports to your sources.list for FFmpeg
and others. Instructions here: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools \
libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libopenal-dev libxss-dev qrencode \
libqrencode-dev libglib2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev ffmpeg \
libsqlcipher-dev
Go to sqlcipher section to compile it if necessary.
#### openSUSEsudo zypper install patterns-openSUSE-devel_basis libqt5-qtbase-common-devel \
libqt5-qtsvg-devel libqt5-linguist libQt5Network-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel \
libQt5Concurrent-devel libQt5Xml-devel libQt5Sql-devel openal-soft-devel \
qrencode-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libQt5Sql5-sqlite libffmpeg-devel \
sqlcipher-devel
List of all the qTox dependencies and their SlackBuilds can be found here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/qTox/
#### Ubuntu >=15.04 ```bash sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools \ libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libopenal-dev libxss-dev qrencode \ libqrencode-dev libavutil-ffmpeg-dev libswresample-ffmpeg-dev \ libavcodec-ffmpeg-dev libswscale-ffmpeg-dev libavfilter-ffmpeg-dev \ libavdevice-ffmpeg-dev libglib2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev \ libsqlcipher-dev ``` #### Ubuntu >=16.04: ```bash sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libopenal-dev libxss-dev qrencode libqrencode-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libavfilter-dev libavdevice-dev libglib2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsqlcipher-dev ```toxcore dependencies
Install all of the toxcore dependencies.
#### Arch Linux ```bash sudo pacman -S --needed opus libvpx libsodium ``` #### Debian ```bash sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev automake checkinstall check \ libopus-dev libvpx-dev libsodium-dev libavdevice-dev ``` #### Fedora ```bash sudo dnf install libtool autoconf automake check check-devel libsodium-devel \ opus-devel libvpx-devel ``` #### openSUSE ```bash sudo zypper install libsodium-devel libvpx-devel libopus-devel \ patterns-openSUSE-devel_basis ``` #### SlackwareList of all the toxcore dependencies and their SlackBuilds can be found here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/toxcore/
#### Ubuntu >=15.04 ```bash sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev automake checkinstall check \ libopus-dev libvpx-dev libsodium-dev ```sqlcipher
If you are not using an old version of Fedora, skip this section, and go directly to compiling toxcore.
git clone https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher
cd sqlcipher
./configure --enable-tempstore=yes CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC" \
LDFLAGS="-lcrypto"
make
sudo make install
cd ..
Compile toxcore
Provided that you have all required dependencies installed, you can simply run:
git clone https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore.git toxcore
cd toxcore
autoreconf -if
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
sudo ldconfig
Compile qTox
Make sure that all the dependencies are installed. If you experience problems with compiling, it's most likely due to missing dependencies, so please make sure that you did install all of them.
Run in qTox directory to compile:
qmake
make
Now you can start compiled qTox with ./qtox
Congratulations, you've compiled qTox :)
openSUSE / Fedora
Note to Fedora users: check qt5 version before building default is 4.8 on fedora
21 / 22, everything up until qmake-qt5 will build fine but then qmake-qt5
will freak out.
qmake-qt5
make
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint
If the compiling process stops with a missing dependency like:
... libswscale/swscale.h missing try:
apt-file search libswscale/swscale.h
And install the package that provides the missing file.
Start make again. Repeat if necessary until all dependencies are installed. If
you can, please note down all additional dependencies you had to install that
aren't listed here, and let us know what is missing ;)
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Building packages
Alternately, qTox now has the experimental and probably-dodgy ability to package
itself (in .deb form natively, and .rpm form with
alien).
After installing the required dependencies, run bootstrap.sh and then run the
buildPackages.sh script, found in the tools folder. It will automatically get
the packages necessary for building .debs, so be prepared to type your
password for sudo.
Supported OS X versions: >=10.8.
Compiling qTox on OS X for development requires 3 tools: Xcode, Qt 5.4+ and homebrew.
Automated Script
You can now set up your OS X system to compile qTox automatically thanks to the
script in: ./osx/qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh
This script can be run independently of the qTox repo and is all that's needed to build from scratch on OS X.
To use this script you must launch terminal which can be found:
Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app
If you wish to lean more you can run ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -h
Note that the script will revert any non-committed changes to qTox repository
during the update phase.
First Run / Install
If you are running the script for the first time you will want to make sure your
system is ready. To do this simply run ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -i to
run you through the automated install set up.
After running the installation setup you are now ready to build qTox from
source, to do this simply run: ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -b
If there aren't any errors then you'll find a locally working qTox application
in your home folder under ~/qTox-Mac_Build
Updating
If you want to update your application for testing purposes or you want to run a
nightly build setup then run: ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -u and follow
the prompts. (NOTE: If you know you updated the repos before running this hit Y)
followed by ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -b to build the application once
more. (NOTE: This will delete your previous build.)
Deploying
OS X requires an extra step to make the qTox.app file shareable on a system
that doesn't have the required libraries installed already.
If you want to share the build you've made with your other friends who use OS X
then simply run: ./qTox-Mac-Deployer-ULTIMATE.sh -d
Manual Compiling
Required Libraries
Install homebrew if you don't have it:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
First, let's install the dependencies available via brew.
brew install git ffmpeg qrencode libtool automake autoconf check qt5 libvpx \
opus sqlcipher libsodium
Next, install toxcore
Then, clone qTox:
git clone https://github.com/qTox/qTox
Finally, copy all required files. Whenever you update your brew packages, you may skip all of the above steps and simply run the following commands:
cd ./git/qTox
sudo bash bootstrap-osx.sh
Compiling
You can build qTox with Qt Creator
seperate download or you can
hunt down the version of home brew qt5 your using in the
/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/ directory. e.g.
/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.5.1_2/bin/qmake with 5.5.1_2 being the version of
Qt5 that's been installed.
With that; in your terminal you can compile qTox in the git dir:
/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.5.1_2/bin/qmake ./qtox.pro
Or a cleaner method would be to:
cd ./git/dir/qTox
mkdir ./build
cd build
/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.5.1_2/bin/qmake ../qtox.pro
Deploying
If you compiled qTox properly you can now deploy the qTox.app that's created
where you built qTox so you can distribute the package.
Using your qt5 homebrew installation from the build directory:
/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.5.1_2/bin/macdeployqt ./qTox.app
Running qTox
You've got 2 choices, either click on the qTox app that suddenly exists, or do the following:
qtox.app/Contents/MacOS/qtox
Enjoy the snazzy CLI output as your friends and family congratulate you on becoming a hacker
## WindowsQt
Download the Qt online installer for Windows from
qt.io. While installation you have
to assemble your Qt toolchain. Take the most recent version of Qt compiled with
MinGW. Although the installer provides its own bundled MinGW compiler toolchain
its recommend installing it separately because Qt is missing MSYS which is
needed to compile and install OpenAL. Thus you can - if needed - deselect the
tab Tools. The following steps assume that Qt is installed at C:\Qt. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
MinGW
Download the MinGW installer for Windows from
sourceforge.net. Make
sure to install MSYS (a set of Unix tools for Windows). The following steps
assume that MinGW is installed at C:\MinGW. If you decided to choose another
location, replace corresponding parts. Select mingw-developer-toolkit,
mingw32-base, mingw32-gcc-g++, msys-base and mingw32-pthreads-w32
packages using MinGW Installation Manager (mingw-get.exe). Check that the
version of MinGW, corresponds to the version of the QT component!
Wget
Download the Wget installer for Windows from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm. Install them. The following
steps assume that Wget is installed at C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
UnZip
Download the UnZip installer for Windows from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm. Install it. The following
steps assume that UnZip is installed at C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
Setting up Path
Add MinGW/MSYS/CMake binaries to the system path to make them globally
accessible. Open Control Panel -> System and Security -> System ->
Advanced system settings -> Environment Variables... (or run sysdm.cpl
select tab Advanced system settings -> button Environment Variables). In the
second box search for the PATH variable and press Edit.... The input box
Variable value: should already contain some directories. Each directory is
separated with a semicolon. Extend the input box by adding
;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\bin;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin.
The very first semicolon must only be added if it is missing. CMake may be added
by installer automatically. Make sure that paths containing alternative sh,
bash implementations such as C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin are at the end of
PATH or build may fail.
Cloning the Repository
Clone the repository (https://github.com/qTox/qTox.git) with your preferred Git
client. SmartGit is very nice for this task
(you may need to add the path to the git.exe system variable Path). The
following steps assume that you cloned the repository at C:\qTox. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
Getting dependencies
Run bootstrap.bat in cloned C:\qTox directory. Script will download rest of
dependencies compile them and put to appropriate directories.