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| author | Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> | 2020-12-19 20:58:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> | 2020-12-19 20:58:46 +0100 |
| commit | f33d15242b0581387fa0035c84691206b47ebf37 (patch) | |
| tree | 3821026d8b7419d966687f66498b5a1f1da148cf /doc/install.asciidoc | |
| parent | 8e7f24bc0c6cdb333fef1a4a72d659aaeb7bbf09 (diff) | |
| download | qutebrowser-f33d15242b0581387fa0035c84691206b47ebf37.tar.gz qutebrowser-f33d15242b0581387fa0035c84691206b47ebf37.zip | |
Add mkvenv.py --update
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install.asciidoc b/doc/install.asciidoc index f7a3d8a60..74b18a6cf 100644 --- a/doc/install.asciidoc +++ b/doc/install.asciidoc @@ -432,11 +432,10 @@ You can specify a Qt/PyQt version with the `--pyqt-version` flag, see `mkenv.py --help` for a list of available versions. By default, the latest version which plays well with qutebrowser is used. -NOTE: If qutebrowser fails to start with a _"This application failed to start +NOTE: If the Qt smoke test fails with a _"This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized."_ message, most likely a -system-wide library is missing. Run qutebrowser again after -`export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1` and keep attention to a -_QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on ..._ line for details. +system-wide library is missing. Pay attention to a _QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin +failed on ..._ line for details. Installing dependencies (system-wide Qt) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -487,5 +486,6 @@ Updating When you updated your local copy of the code (e.g. by pulling the git repo, or extracting a new version), the virtualenv should automatically use the updated -code. However, dependencies won't be updated that way. Re-running `mkvenv.py` -will recreate the virtualenv with updated dependencies. +code. However, dependencies won't be updated that way. Thus, it's recommended +to run `mkvenv.py --update` instead, which will run `git pull` and recreate the +virtualenv with updated dependencies. |