Qt SDK Repo Chooser

End-of-life notice

The Qt SDK Repo Chooser is now obsolete because Qt IFW 4.0.1-1 now officially supports mirror selection. Please use that instead: https://wiki.qt.io/Online_Installer_4.x#Selecting_a_mirror_for_opensource

Qt SDK Repo Chooser has also been unusable since Qt IFW 3.0.2 which changed its internals to only use server-provided URLs.

This project is now archived.

Original Project Description

If you are using the online Qt 5 SDK but downloads are slow and/or you frequently get disconnected, this tool might help. You might have been assigned a mirror that is performing poorly. The Qt SDK Repo Chooser helps you select a non-default mirror, which might give you a better download experience.

Ideally, the causes of this issue should be solved upstream. Please add your thoughts, ideas, and votes to the reports at QTIFW-5 and QTIFW-441. In the meantime though, I hope this tool is useful for you to get started with Qt.

Instructions

See doc/index.html.

Alternative Instructions

If you can't use this tool for whatever reason, you can still set up your local repository manually.

1. Download the contents of the following folder and all its subfolders. Ensure that you preserve the folder hierarchy:

   • http://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/{platform}/root/qt/
   • {platform} is one of:
     • "linux_x64"
     • "linux_x86"
     • "mac_x64"
     • "windows_x86"

2. Follow steps #1 - #3 in doc/index.html.

3. See the URL of the online installer from the mirror. It should be in this form:

   • {base_path}/official_releases/online_installers/{installer_executable}

4. Open Updates.xml that you downloaded from step #1. Notice a list of URLs in this form:

   • http://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/{platform}/{package}

5. Replace all instances of "http://download.qt.io" with the value of {base_path} from step #3.

6. Save Updates.xml.

7. Follow steps #7 - #10 in doc/index.html. The folder that contains Updates.xml is your User Defined Repository.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Samuel Gaist for providing the prebuilt macOS binaries.