Monday 30 November 2020

Upgrading unetbootin to remove qt4 dependency

When my openSUSE Leap 15.2 showed a libqt4 update I wondered what application needed these old libraries. Removing libqt4 removed a bunch of library dependencies and the one application that appeared was unetbootin. A search showed that Ubuntu 20 users had encountered missing libqt4 problems too, and the official solution is to upgrade to unetbootin 681. Even though libqt4 is still supported in Leap 15.2 I decided to upgrade. This can be done as a one-click install from software.opensuse.org and the "experimental" package is from the filesystems repo. I guess the next release of Leap will make unetbootin 681 official.

As a bonus this freed up about 150 MB of disk space now that nothing needs qt4 any more.