How To Install QElectroTech on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install QElectroTech on Ubuntu systems with two different methods.

QElectroTech is a free application that has been designed to help create electrical, electronic, automation, control circuits, mechanical objects to illustrate processes, instrumentation drawings and many other things.

QElectroTech uses the GNU/GPL license and can run on Gnu/Linux, Windows and macOS. With its large collection of standard and custom symbols.

Install QElectroTech on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with QElectroTech :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• QElectroTech package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scorpio/qelectrotech-dev

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install qelectrotech as shown below:

sudo apt install qelectrotech -y

Install QElectroTech-Flatpak method

NOTE: Also you can install QElectroTech with Flatpak

Flatpak, formerly known as xdg-app, is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system.

• So install the Flatpak manager with running the following command:

sudo apt install flatpak -y

• Enable Flatpak using the following command

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• Install QElectroTech using the following flatpak command.

flatpak install flathub org.qelectrotech.QElectroTech -y

Access QElectroTech

• Access QElectroTech with CLI by running the following command:

qelectrotech

• You can it on the system search bar by typing QElectroTech as follows

• Alternatively, Flatpak users will need to launch using the command below:

flatpak run org.qelectrotech.QElectroTech

• QElectroTech will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) QElectroTech

• Remove QElectroTech APT Method

sudo apt autoremove qelectrotech --purge -y

• Remove QElectroTech with Flatpak Remove Method:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.qelectrotech.QElectroTech
flatpak remove --unused

Install QElectroTech – Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.