> On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Duane <duane.heb...@group-upc.com> wrote: > > On 28/10/2015 8:57 AM, Ziller Eike wrote: >> >>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Duane <duane.heb...@group-upc.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 28/10/2015 3:28 AM, Ziller Eike wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 9:26 PM, Duane <duane.heb...@group-upc.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I hope this isn't off topic here as I thnk it's about the maintenance >>>>> tool and not QtCreator directly. >>>>> >>>>> I ran the maintenance tool to update Qt creator to the current version, >>>>> then installed Qt 5.5. Both seemed to run ok but now when I run the >>>>> maintenance tool I get a dialog saying: >>>>> >>>>> "Your installation seems to be corrupted. Please consider re-installing >>>>> from scratch" When I click ok, it continues and seems to work. >>>>> >>>>> Both QtCreator and Qt5.5 seem to have been installed. >>>> >>>> The most probable meaning of that message is that the Maintenance tool >>>> found that it installed something, but afterwards did not find uninstall >>>> instructions for some of the packages that it installed. >>>> Meaning that you most probably will run into problems the next time an >>>> update comes (or some later update), because it will not uninstall the >>>> package before installing the new version, resulting in stale files lying >>>> around. >>> >>> >>> It looks like it's something to do with android for arm with Qt 5.5. I >>> don't build for android so I unchecked these with the install. I reverted >>> my virtual machine and tried installing with them selected but had the same >>> thing. >>> >>> >>> As an aside, the popup is telling me to reinstall from scratch but if I try >>> to uninstall, this fails. Is it telling me to reinstall all from scratch? >> >> Is this the online installer or the offline installer? >> Is this a first time install in that directory of your VM, or do you update >> an existing installation with the online installer? >> As I said, the message means that it is probable that uninstallation fails. >> That should definitely not happen with the offline installers or fresh >> online installations. If you update an existing online installation it might >> happen because the installer had a bug which it cannot revive from (lost >> uninstall info is lost). >> > > I believe it's the online installer. My latest working build of Qt is 5.3. > It's when I try to install a 5.5 that this happens.
Then you need to do a complete reinstall. Just remove the previous install directory with your favorite file system tool. Br, Eike -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - The Qt Company GmbH The Qt Company GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
