PiCute — QT5 on the RaspberryPI

PiCute is a Raspbian based OS for the RaspberryPI running the amazing QT5.4 graphical framework. The underlying OS is based on pipaOS XGUI version.

Features

• OpenGL ES 2.0
• Linux framebuffer backend
• Xserver with Fluxbox
• Support for Gif, Jpeg and Png formats
• QT5 networking with SSL support
• SQLite plugin enabled
• xkbcommon enabled
• Runs on RaspberryPI models B and 2
• Developer version includes QTCreator v3.4.0

Running

Download and burn the developer image on a SD card and boot it. At the login prompt enter sysop and posys for the password.

$ startx

Right click on the desktop, fire up the LXTerminal, then test the many QT5 examples:

$ cd /usr/local/picute/v5.4.1/examples
$ ./opengl/hellogl2/hellogl2

Downloads

• picute-1.03-qtv5.4.1-developer.img.gz - 889MB
• picute-1.03-qtv5.4.1-runtime.img.gz - 308MB

Packages

Debian Wheezy packages available at deb http://archive.mitako.eu wheezy main

Contact

Source code on Github

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