Focus writer RPM is not available for Linux 7 but other Linux distributions like Ubuntu has built-in support. So tried to compile Focus Writer from the source but failed with QT dependency hell. Focus Writer needs QT 5 and Oracle Linux 7 comes with QT4.
Installed QT5 but still failing.
make: /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/lrelease: Command not found
When I try to run make – failing due to the above error. Upon search release found in qt4 folder. Even after install QT5 using built-in repos release not installed for QT5. Even tried the Fedora package to implement but failing with dependency hell.
So I am struck but don’t want to miss the good text editor. After much trial and error able to do a clean compilation of Focus Writer on Oracle / RHEL 7.
How to compile Focus Writer
1. Download QT 5.11 from the QT website
WGET https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.12/5.12.11/qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.12.11.run
2. Execute and follow the wizard guidelines
3. Set the path
export PATH=”/opt/Qt5.12.11/5.12.11/gcc_64/bin:$PATH”
4. qmake
5. make
6. make install
Bingo! your Focus Writer is ready for use on Redhat/Oracle Linux 7.
In this way, we can compile Focus writer from the source for Oracle Linux 7.
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