In Ubuntu 15.04 64 bits I installed Qt5.6 (online installer) and while trying to move my development environment from Windows 7 to Linux I faced the following: Following this, I managed to find ~/Qt/5.6/gcc_64/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlmysql.so and then: Tells libmysqlclient_r.so.16 => not found. In fact, it seems I have a newer version: Perhaps that’s the problem. Could some one confirm? How should