OK... lets try this again... the 0.38 version is really dumb (yoiu cant even change the backgrounds on it... i followed the link and got the following error message after downloading it and clicking on the install button:

Some package requested cannot be installed: libqt3-devel3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos.i586 (due to the unsatisfied libqt3 [==3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos])

I hope your still watching this thread, as you have been very helpful.

Ok now I found the libqt3-3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos and went to install it and got this error message:

Some package requested cannot be installed: libqt3-3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos.i586 (due to the unsatisfied qt3-common [==3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos])

I have searched and searched and cannot find this rpm anywhere. I have gottent this dependency thing down i just cant seem to find certain ones, like the one listed above?

OK, I remember SoS when I used Mandriva. It was a pig to set up as a urpmi repository.

However I have since found http://rpm.pbone.net/ .

Next to the search bar click advanced search, then uncheck all, then check Mandriva 2006.

Now in the search bar, enter qt3-common.

I've just done this and the 3.3.6-5.1.2006.Sos version was there.

This rpm search site is the best I have used. But it means that dependencies have to be solved one rpm at a time. One way to shorten this is to put all the needed rpms in one directory, desktop will do or wherever you download to and run command in terminal as root:

cd /home/[username]/Desktop

urpmi **.rpm

This will install all rpms in the directory you are in simultaniusly. Then if a dependency is needed, simply add to directory and then run command again.

alright I put all the rpm's i download in one folder as u suggested.

now there is a dpendency problem as follows:

./configure needs the following: libqt3-devel

libqt3-devel need the following: libqt3

libqt3 needs the following: qt3-common

qt3common needs the following: libqt3

libqt3 needs the following: qt3-common

SEE THE LOOP I AM STUCK IN ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I cant install one without the other. Im going to pull my hair out.

alright sorry for the rant.. out of that loop now and looking for:

configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!

As you have qt3-common-3.3.6-5.1 you have qt => 3.2 so the problem isn't there.
I think there is a problem with qt I found the following:
I found a broken link in the Qt lib directory ('/usr/lib/qt3/lib/' in my distro). My linker found libqt-mt.so, a link which was pointing to an outdated shared library that wasn't there. I did have a shared lib 'libqt-mt.so.3.3.3' in the same dir, but the broken link was sending it to a nonexistent 'libqt-mt.so.3.2.3'. This probably explains the "can't find library qt-mt" error message. So I deleted the stale link and made a new one that pointed to the correct file, and all worked fine! Apparently when they made a new version of Qt they forgot to update the links!

To do this:
cd /usr/lib/qt3/lib
ls -al

make sure libqt-mt.so files are there.

If you cannot find them install slocate. And run as root:
updatedb
locate qt-mt.so

Post back with what you find.
And in which directories they are in.


OK, looking at libqt3-3.3.6-5.1 on pbone, in the provides list it gives libqt-mt.so.3

So in /usr/lib/qt3/lib directory you should have (when running ls -al):

libqt-mt.so -> libqt-mt.so.3

If this is not the case as root in terminal run:

cd /usr/lib/qt3/lib
mv libqt-mt.so libqt-mt.so-old (just to backup)
ln -s libqt-mt.so.3 libqt-mt.so (to link file)
ldconfig

This should sort the linking problem.

Very close to the end now, just these to go!

checking for Qt... libraries /usr/lib/qt3/lib, headers /usr/lib/qt3/include using -mt
checking for moc... /usr/lib/qt3/bin/moc
checking for uic... /usr/lib/qt3/bin/uic
checking whether uic supports -L ... yes
checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes
checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no
checking for rpath... yes
checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde3/lib, headers /opt/kde3/include
checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... yes
checking for KDE paths... defaults
checking for dcopidl... /opt/kde3/bin/dcopidl
checking for dcopidl2cpp... /opt/kde3/bin/dcopidl2cpp
checking for mcopidl... /opt/kde3/bin/mcopidl
checking for artsc-config... /opt/kde3/bin/artsc-config
checking for meinproc... /opt/kde3/bin/meinproc
checking for kconfig_compiler... /opt/kde3/bin/kconfig_compiler
checking for dcopidlng... /opt/kde3/bin/dcopidlng
checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for MAXPATHLEN... 4096
checking if doc should be compiled... yes
checking if po should be compiled... yes
checking if src should be compiled... yes
checking if addons should be compiled... yes
configure: creating ./config.status


This has gone from an app install to a full Linux howto, this is the best way to learn about linux. Sure you could have just stuck with 0.38, but where's the fun in that!