# Installing Qt VCP Qt Designer Plugins

Fist, you need to be using `Python 2.7` and `PyQt4`

To install `PyQt4` I ran

`$ sudo apt-get install python-qt4-dev`

Open a root file browser and navigate to (replace `x86_64` with your machine's architecture)

`/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/designer`

Make sure the folder contains a file named `libpyqt4.so`.

Navigate to `linuxcnc/lib/python/qtvcp/plugins/` and link 
`qtvcp_plugins.py` to `~/.designer/plugins/python`

`$ mkdir ~/.designer/plugins/python -p`  
`$ ln -sf $(pwd)/qtvcp_plugin.py ~/.designer/plugins/python`

Or, if you prefer

`$ sudo ln -sf $(pwd)/qtvcp_plugin.py /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/designer/python`

If you are using a RIP run `. scripts/rip-environment` and then launch Qt Designer

`qtchooser -run-tool=designer -qt=4`

This same procedure seems to work for Qt5