Not related per se to the fall-out of last weekend’s update to the icu4c and poppler packages, my qbittorrent package for slackware-current had stopped working sometime ago – caused by an update in -current of the boost package on which the torrent library depends.

I needed to update qbittorrent too therefore, after having taken care of the icu4c/poppler breakage. The thing is, I had tried to delay the switch in qbittorrent from Qt4 to Qt5 for as long as possible. The ‘new’ 4.x series of qbittorrent have a hard dependency on Qt5, and Qt4 is no longer supported. So I bit the bullet and made packages for bittorrent-4.0.4 and its dependency, libtorrent-rasterbar-1.1.6.
Since the program uses Qt5 now, the dependencies have changed. If you were running qbittorrent 3.x on slackware-current previously then you have to ensure that you have libxkbcommon, qt5 and qt5-webkit packages installed now.

For good times’ sake, I have kept the old SlackBuild scripts and sources but I renamed them to libtorrent-rasterbar10.SlackBuild and qbittorrent3.SlackBuild. If you want the old Qt4 based interface back, then compile the two packages using these SlackBuild scripts (first libtorrent-rasterbar, then qbittorrent). You can install either the new, or the old versions. They can not be co-installed.