# Build issues relating to JKQTPlotter **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [January 27, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286 "2026-01-27T13:15:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/matterhorn103/32/1751_2.png) [@matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/matterhorn103)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/1 "2026-01-27T13:15:41Z")
Sorry to trouble you with a request for help like this, but I don’t really have the time to figure it out myself and I suspect the solution might be immediately obvious to you… I can’t build Avogadro from source right now. The observations: - All the initial steps building the dependencies work fine, up to and including `openbabel` - The failure occurs in the configure step for `avogadrolibs` with the following output: ```auto [78%] Performing configure step for 'avogadrolibs' loading initial cache file /home/matt/avo/build/avogadrolibs-prefix/tmp/avogadrolibs-cache-Debug.cmake -- Determined Source Version : 1.102.1-418-g8fc655e8 -- Component omp of Spglib: NOT FOUND -- Component fortran of Spglib: NOT FOUND -- Found package: Spglib CMake Error at avogadro/qtgui/CMakeLists.txt:32 (find_package): By not providing "FindJKQTPlotter6.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "JKQTPlotter6", but CMake did not find one. Could not find a package configuration file provided by "JKQTPlotter6" with any of the following names: JKQTPlotter6Config.cmake jkqtplotter6-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "JKQTPlotter6" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "JKQTPlotter6_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "JKQTPlotter6" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/avogadrolibs.dir/build.make:107: avogadrolibs-prefix/src/avogadrolibs-stamp/avogadrolibs-configure] Error 1 gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:135: CMakeFiles/avogadrolibs.dir/all] Error 2 gmake: *** [Makefile:91: all] Error 2 ``` - `avogadrolibs` is pretty up-to-date (`8fc655e8`, from the 25th Jan) - Likewise, I also pulled `avogadroapp` from upstream on the 25th, it’s at `ec3c8feb` - `openchemistry` and therefore `openchemistry/cmake` is completely up-to-date with upstream - `openchemistry/cmake` contains `External_JKQTPlotter.cmake` - `openchemistry/thirdparty` contains `jkqtplotter`, which is populated with files - `jkqtplotter` is currently at `5fd8951e` (24th June 2025) – this is the commit that the submodule points at in the current HEAD of the `openchemistry` superrepo. Is this fine? There’s no specific commit listed in `openchemistry/cmake/projects.cmake` that I can see ---
**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/4 "2026-01-27T14:58:16Z")
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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/5 "2026-01-27T15:02:27Z")
There wasn’t a specific release / tag for JKQTPlotter because I couldn’t get the 4.0 releases working and there wasn’t yet a tag for 5.0. I see that thanks to our various package maintainers, there’s now [`d243218`](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/commit/d243218119b1632987df26baea0d4bc6ccdee533) as [v5.0.0-beta1](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta1) I’m not entirely sure of the cause .. I’ve run into this a few times and generally cleaning out the build directory and rebuilding has gotten everything to work. It’s possibly somewhat related to [this](https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/2397) which I was just examining. Let me see if there’s an obvious issue, or if updating to v5.0.0-beta1 solves it? ---
**Author:** ![matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/matterhorn103/32/1751_2.png) [@matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/matterhorn103)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/6 "2026-01-27T15:31:02Z")
I’ll give the 5.0 beta a try later and report back 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/7 "2026-01-27T15:34:51Z")
I’ll be pushing `openchemistry` to that tag, along with a few related pull requests. Hopefully that should help. ---
**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/8 "2026-01-27T16:39:20Z")
Okay, try from the latest `HEAD` of `openchemistry` and `avogadrolibs` and `avogadroapp` Hopefully those changes should solve your problem? ---
**Author:** ![matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/matterhorn103/32/1751_2.png) [@matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/matterhorn103)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/9 "2026-02-01T16:29:34Z")
I tried updating to all those commits, including this one > [@ghutchis](#): > > I see that thanks to our various package maintainers, there’s now [`d243218`](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/commit/d243218119b1632987df26baea0d4bc6ccdee533) as [v5.0.0-beta1](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta1) for JKQTPlotter, but sadly it still doesn’t seem to work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/10 "2026-02-01T22:17:07Z")
I don’t know. With current HEAD, you can use `-DUSE_PLOTTER=OFF` if you’re having problems with that. ---
**Author:** ![PPN-SD](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ppn-sd/32/3260_2.png) [@PPN-SD](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/PPN-SD)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/11 "2026-02-13T04:25:51Z")
Could you check if you have installed the Qt5 version? See [check Qt${QT\_VERSION\_MAJOR} at first by PPN-SD · Pull Request #156 · jkriege2/JKQtPlotter · GitHub](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/pull/156) ---
**Author:** ![matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/matterhorn103/32/1751_2.png) [@matterhorn103](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/matterhorn103)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/12 "2026-02-13T15:55:11Z")
> [@ghutchis](#): > > you can use `-DUSE_PLOTTER=OFF` if you’re having problems with that. This worked as a temporary solution, by the way, it compiled fine after that. This worked, by the way. > [@PPN-SD](#): > > Could you check if you have installed the Qt5 version? Do you mean whether JKQtPlotter is building against Qt5? How would I check that? ---
**Author:** ![PPN-SD](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ppn-sd/32/3260_2.png) [@PPN-SD](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/PPN-SD)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/build-issues-relating-to-jkqtplotter/7286/13 "2026-02-13T18:13:49Z")
You’ll find JKQTPlotter5Config.cmake if that’s the case.