Building Sonic PI in Debian 9

Hello I am new here.
I tried to build sonicPI on debian but i had a problems because of a “bug” introduced in


Changing the libraries to support ubuntu 18.04 broke debian building. To get it built on debian i looked for places where that library was added:
i removed in in SonicPi.pro and in the Makefile. I removed it an put back the previous library -lqt5scintilla2.

So if you are like me and get stuck on this error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqscintilla2_qt5
follow the instruction above.

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