This is a simple script replacing the official online-only graphical Qt installer. It can automatically download prebuilt Qt binaries for any target (you're not bound to Linux binaries on Linux; you could also download iOS binaries).

This is a great alternative to the 2.5GB+ offline executable installers which just include everything and are the only official way to pin Qt versions with. Think of this as a version selecting online installer alternative that Qt doesn't put out. It's great for projects using cloud CI systems without access to a huge cache or capacity to host a pinned Qt download themselves.

Naturally, this is also headless and lightweight. Though if you would like to use the official large installers headlessly, might I suggest you take a look at the CuteCI project? It's way heavier than this though in file footprint and takes much longer to install with even on a fast machine in a datacenter. For example, the extracted CuteCI UI silent install takes about 7 minutes on Windows to install the Windows Qt5 MSVC Win64 toolkit while this script takes about 21 seconds. Still, it is official which this will never be. It also supports pure-offline installation. This script requires connectivity to Qt mirrors.

This isn't the official installer though so don't expect support from Qt! If something breaks, please create an issue at in this project's tracker.

Dependencies: Python 3.6/3.7, Python requests library (see or pip install -r requirements.txt), 7z or p7zip

./qli-installer.py <qt-version> <host> <target> [<arch>]

The Qt version is formatted like this: 5.11.3 Host is one of: linux, mac, windows Target is one of: desktop, android, ios (iOS only works with mac host) For android and windows you also need to specify an arch: win64_msvc2017_64, win64_msvc2015_64, win32_msvc2015, win32_mingw53, android_x86, android_armv7

Example: Installing Qt 5.12.0 for Linux:

./qli-installer.py 5.12.0 linux desktop

Example: Installing Android (armv7) Qt 5.10.2:

./qli-installer.py 5.10.2 linux android android_armv7

Example: Installing QT 5.12.3 (msvc_2017) Qt 5.10.2:

./qli-installer.py 5.12.3 windows desktop win32_msvc2017

All these examples will create a tmp folder within the root of the script and an output folder with the downloaded target.

The tmp and output folders can be adjusted with their respective environment variables: QLI_TMP_DIR and QLI_OUT_DIR.

The Base URL can be adjusted too if the default Qt URL is too unstable with QLI_BASE_URL. This repository uses an alternate URL for its own testing because the default URL is too unstable. Mirrors can be found here:

http://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/

WIP

https://github.com/nelsonjchen/barrier/tree/azure-pipelines

The script is tested against all currently stable and supported versions of QT versions, host platforms, targets, and architectures.

The number of jobs is a bit insane but it's all tested to see if reasonable targets to be downloaded and used on a platform can be installed. E.g. iOS on a Mac and MSVC on Windows.

Because of this, the azure-pipelines.yml in the root is generated! Install the packages in .azure-pipelines/requirements.txt and run .azure-pipelines/generate_azure_pipelines_yml.py to regenerate azure-pipelines.yml.

https://git.kaidan.im/lnj/qli-installer/blob/master/

This fork of this tool is hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/nelsonjchen/qli-installer

After making this fork , I found another fork of lnjx's qli-installer that also ported QLI Installer to Windows. 😒 If you're looking for a version that's in PyPI and is also continuously tested on the target platforms, look at aqtinstall:

https://pypi.org/project/aqtinstall/

It has parallel downloading and extraction support too!