Public bug reported:
As a (potentially) new user of Qt as an environment and development
toolset, I was really disappointed to find that the examples promised on
the website, and indeed the installed package were not actually there!
This initially made it impossible to start learning how to use the tool
in the way described by the introductory material.
In fact, I discovered after much difficulty that multiple separate
example packages were all listed with the suffix '5-examples' within the
ubuntu repository and had to be installed separately and individually by
identifying the unique name of the specific subpackage of examples, then
installing that package.
Given the choice of packaging by the maintainer, the qtcreator
introductory page should certainly not claim... I quote "You can test
that your Qt SDK installation is successful by opening an existing
example application project. On the Welcome page, select Examples (1).".
The website should not claim it either, given the choice of packaging,
but this is probably beyond our control.
If qtcreator is to be distributed separately from its examples, a
metapackage should be provided with a meaningful name, which depends on
all the example packages so that adopters can acquire all the examples
easily. The naming convention, since it doesn't include a string
identifying the toolkit and version is fairly hard to decrypt (they
should not be called qtscript5-examples, but rather qt5-script-examples
if you want people to be able to find them).
Though I believe it is a flawed naming scheme, a metapackage called
qt5-examples would assist with the issue if the maintainer wants to keep
it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: qtcreator 2.7.1-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-7.13-generic 3.11.0
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 17 17:25:04 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-15 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130626)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qtcreator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: qtcreator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 saucy
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qtcreator claims to have installed examples when they are not there
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