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I downloaded qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run but how to install it on ubuntu 14.04LTS?

This is the output which I get:

administrator@pc-7:~$ cd /home/administrator/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications
administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ chmod +x qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run 
administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ ./qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
bash: ./qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run: No such file or directory

administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ whoami
administrator


administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ find ~ -type f -name "qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run"
find: `/home/administrator/.gnupg': Permission denied
find: `/home/administrator/.dbus': Permission denied
/home/administrator/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
find: `/home/administrator/.cache/dconf': Permission denied
/home/administrator/Desktop/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
find: `/home/administrator/.gvfs': Permission denied

@A.B.

administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ chmod +x ~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run 
administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ ~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
bash: /home/administrator/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run: No such file or directory

@A.B.

This is another thing which I tried:

administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ chmod +x qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
administrator@pc-7:~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications$ . qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run
bash: .: qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run: cannot execute binary file
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  • this is offline installation i am talking about. – Sajjad Manal Aug 31 '15 at 11:22
  • Please [edit] your question and add the output of ls -la --escape ~/Desktop – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 09:01
  • total 1047540 drwxr-xr-x 4 administrator administrator 4096 Sep 1 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 43 administrator administrator 4096 Sep 1 13:58 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 508886 Jul 22 13:00 17870614_14J.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 452282 Aug 13 14:01 bigmb.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 administrator administrator 4268 Jun 1 11:53 installing\ java\ commands.docx -rw-rw-r-- 1 administrator administrator 56068 May 21 14:01 Intro\ page.odt -rwxrwxr-x 1 administrator administrator 572293599 Aug 31 16:31 qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run – Sajjad Manal Sep 01 '15 at 09:05
  • And my question is when I apply the commands you first told to install qt, this error comes: bash: ./qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run: No such file or directory – Sajjad Manal Sep 01 '15 at 09:09
  • And add the output of whoami – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 09:19
  • Ok, next one find ~ -type f -name "qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run". Add the output of the command into your question and give me a ping with @A.B. – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 09:34
  • What's the output of uname -a – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 17:49
  • The command . qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run can't work. Use ~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications and after that ./qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run Note the slash between . and the filename – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 17:57
  • And a last try: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME – A.B. Sep 01 '15 at 18:00

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Couple of comments. The *.run you are trying to download has x86 in the file name, meaning it is for 32-bit OS, so that is one thing to keep track of. If your OS is 64-bit, you may need to install libc6:i386 . More on that here

Second, in my tests running the file requires full path to the file, not just ./qt*.run. I cannot explain why it does it that way, but it just does.

Bellow is a small script I wrote that determines correct OS version, downloads appropriate version of QT, and installs it from $HOME/QT folder. Perhaps a little verbose, but it should ease the manual labor. 

#!/bin/bash
# set -x

printf "Qt INSTALLER SCRIPT STARTED\n"
ARCH=$(uname -m)
printf "Your OS is %s \n" $ARCH 

if [ $ARCH = "x86_64" ];then
  FILE="qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.4.1.run"
else 
  FILE="qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run"
fi

cd $HOME

if [ ! -e QT ];then
  printf "CREATING $HOME/QT folder\n" 
  mkdir $HOME/QT
fi

cd $HOME/QT

if [ ! -e $FILE  ];then
    printf "DOWNLOADING BINARY  to %s\n" $(pwd)
    wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.4/5.4.1/$FILE
fi

echo $PWD
chmod 755 $FILE
$( readlink -f $FILE )
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  • I've tested the installation of the x86 on my 64-bit system too. In my case, that makes no difference. – A.B. Sep 02 '15 at 05:01
  • The message in the question bash: .: qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run: cannot execute binary file, OP starts the bin with . Foo and not with ./Foo – A.B. Sep 02 '15 at 05:03
  • @Sajjadmanal Glad you have it figured out. May I ask how did you solve your issue ? Was my answer helpful in any way ? – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Oct 17 '15 at 07:32
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    My PC was X86-64 and I had installed qt for x86 i.e, 32 bit – Sajjad Manal Oct 17 '15 at 08:07
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Make the file qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run executable

chmod +x ~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run

Run with

~/Downloads/FlareGet/Applications/qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.4.1.run

And you will see this

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