How to update QupZilla on Ubuntu Mate?

Question

The lightweight browser QupZilla is fairly outdated on Ubuntu Mate.

I wonder how I can update/compile QupZilla from source?

Upstream, there is no ARM package available for download.

Answer 1

To build it from source, follow these steps (as root):

Download source of the latest version. (For now it is v2.0.1)

# wget https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/archive/v2.0.1.tar.gz

Extract the zipped archive and enter into the source directory.

# tar xvf v2.0.1.tar.gz
# cd qupzilla-2.0.1

Read BUILD.md for important points. For example, it says that Qt 5 (>= 5.6) is required.

# more BUILD.md

Amendment #1 - Start

The highest version in Ubuntu Mate repo is Qt 5.5.1 as the question owner says below.

Build Qt 5 having version equal or higher than Qt 5.6 as described at Qt for Linux/X11 - Build from Source. Be sure that you have enough space to compile Qt from source. Here is the link to source of Qt 5.7.

Amendment #1 - End

Set installation path QUPZILLA_PREFIX to whatever you want. The default prefix is /usr. Detailed explanations about this configuration and about many others can be found in BUILD.md.

# export QUPZILLA_PREFIX=/opt/qupzilla-2.0.1

Compile and install. Some dependencies may be missing on the system. They can be easily installed with apt-get.

# qmake
# make
# make install

After successful make and install, the browser binary can be found under /opt/qupzilla-2.0.1/bin.