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I have tested this process and everything is working as expected. Now having a deb makes it much easier to create a development docker with Qt Creator which I will be testing next.

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### Debian Qt Creator and Plugin Installation

Qt Creator can be installed via debian officially from [Qt](https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qtcreator). The debian is located in the `cpack_experimental` folder found under each version. Below is an example showing the steps to install both Qt Creator and Plugin. After going through the steps below you must log out and back in so the profile changes are active. Afterwards your system should be able to locate Qt Creator and allow you to add it to your favorits.
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I also found Debian packages in the release assets of the GitHub project: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/releases. However, there is no distinction between the "official" releases and the "development" releases for "beta" and "rc" releases. So it is more difficult to automatically download from it.

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christian-rauch commented Oct 28, 2024 •
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See #518 for my suggested bash snippets to download the Debian packages.

With a way to get the latest released stable version / tag, we could provide an installation script that downloads and install the latest Qt Creator and plugin.

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I added documentation to my PR on how to create a launcher for Qt Creator and the plugin via Debian packages. It is essentially reusing the original org.qt-project.qtcreator.desktop launcher but installs it as qtcreator-ros.desktop to /usr/share/applications/, where it can be discovered, and I am setting the Path to /opt/qt-creator/bin/ so we do not need to set this in other places.

This still means that you cannot start it from the command line just by qtcreator, but you still need the full path /opt/qt-creator/bin/qtcreator. I usually always start Qt Creator from the desktop and not from the command line. Do you think it is important to have /opt/qt-creator/bin/ in the PATH so you can call qtcreator from the command line?

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To add to the above, I originally tried to create and install the qtcreator-ros.desktop launcher via CPack so it is installed with the Debian package. But I couldn't make CMake+CPack install it to a different prefix path than /opt/qt-creator/ without messing with the CMake install instructions which would then have installed it always to the absolute path with requesting sudo rights.

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