QElectroTech is an free application designed to help engineers create electrical, electronics, automation, control circuits, mechanical objects to illustrate processes, instrumentation drawings and many other creative potentialities. This guide has been written to act as a reference for installing QElectroTech on Ubuntu.
QElectroTech is licensed under GNU/GPL and can run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. With its large collection of standard and custom symbols, you can describe most of the commonly used components in electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, computer systems. The design elements are saved in a xml format but projects and diagrams can be saved as *.qet format for further editing.
You can export all your designs to various formats such as dxf, pdf, jpg, png etc.
Install QElectroTech on Ubuntu
You can install QElectroTech on Ubuntu from PPA, Snap or Debian package downloaded manually.
Method 1 – Install QElectroTech from Snap
Install Snapd package.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install coreThen use Snap package management tool to install QElectroTech.
$ sudo snap install qelectrotech
2024-07-08T21:03:55Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart...
qelectrotech 0.100.0-ga942f429 from laurent trinques (scorpio) installedTo view more details about installed version, run:
$ snap info qelectrotech
name: qelectrotech
summary: Electrical diagram editor
publisher: laurent trinques (scorpio)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/qelectrotech
contact: https://qelectrotech.org/forum/index.php
license: GPL-2.0
description: |
QElectroTech is a Qt5 application to design electric diagrams.
It uses XML files for elements and diagrams, and includes both a diagram
editor, an element editor, and a titleblock editor.
commands:
- qelectrotech.dxf-to-qet
- qelectrotech
- qelectrotech.qet-tb-generator
snap-id: CEFA0rCgrd6XZ1w9fX4mZzE8jrbR7y6n
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 21:04 UTC
channels:
latest/stable: 0.100.0-ga942f429 2024-06-09 (1901) 51MB -
latest/candidate: 0.8.0 2022-01-26 (1459) 49MB -
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: 0.100.0-g6cad5996 2024-07-06 (1915) 51MB -
installed: 0.100.0-ga942f429 (1901) 51MB -Method 2 – Install QElectroTech from PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scorpio/qelectrotech-dev
sudo apt update && sudo apt install qelectrotechConfirm installation:
$ apt policy qelectrotech
qelectrotech:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.9-2build2
Version table:
1:0.9-2build2 500
500 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 PackagesTo launch QElectroTech, use the terminal
qelectrotechOr Desktop Environment Launcher.
Enjoy using QElectroTech and visit Official documentation to reveal its Ins and Outs.
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