To be able to display my language (khmer) under KDE, i need qt 3.3... have anyone install qt 3.3 in mandrake? How u did it?

I took the spec file for qt3 3.2.x from Mandrake's distribution,
downloaded the qt3 3.3.1 tar package from a Qt mirror,
edited the spec file accordingly, in the process throwing out
all patches that Mandrake applies, built all the subpackages
and installed them. No problems arose, I am now running
on qt3 3.3.1.

is the file on one of the mandrake cds? which one?

thanks

Not sure - should be on one of the Mandrake CDs - if you are a member I guess -
I mirror the Mandrake cooker at home (including SRPMS) and got it from there -
if you cannot find it I may be able to cut-and-paste it here (I don't want to put my
e-mail address here - I get enough spam already).

paehler, could you email me the file, please. Thanks. here's my email: rrrith at yahoo.com

thanks, paehler. I got the files. but i dont know how to do it...(i'm a newbie).

I put the extraSource.sh in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, then i sh it.
then what do i do what from?

the extraSource.sh was created with a program called shar
(as in "sh ell ar chive", try "man shar" if you want to know more,
but you don't need to)

Under mandrake you have a directory /usr/src/RPM with
several subdirectories (/usr/src/RPM/SPECS etc).

1. copy extraSources.sh to the directory /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
2. cd to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
3. sh ./extraSources.sh
4. get the source for Qt and put it into the same directory
- a possible source would be:
ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/X11/QT/qt/source/qt-x11-free-3.3.1.tar.bz2
5. copy the spec file that I sent you to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
6. cd to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
7. rpmbuild -ba name_of_specfile

and you should be done (after an hour or so depending on your
system performance - on my AthlonXP 2100+ with 1.5 GB memory
it takes about an hour to compile.

You may get error messages that required files are missing, like MySQL
or so. Install those (you could edit the specfile to omit building database
support etc, but that would be more messy for a newbie and your final
Qt version would be less complete).

Once done you should have a bunch of *qt3*.i586.rpm files in the directory
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586.

Install those with rpm -Uvh. If you get error messages about missing dependencies
install the packages for those. If you really want to force it, try
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *qt3* and see whether you can get away with it.

Post or mail me if you have any trouble or further questions.

paehler, I successfully upgraded it. It took me about 45 minutes. (I have Athlon64 3200+ and 1 gig of memory). Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it. I can view Khmer now, thanks to you.

Now, i just have to figure out how to create a keyboard input for Khmer... could you tell where to start?

(btw, i'm just a computer science student... but i only had two semester of c++... so that should help me a bit)

I am glad to hear that it worked out well, but I cannot help you much with the input method.
What you need is an input method, like kinput2 or uim for Asian languages.

get the most recent GPL version from www.trolltech.com

In the install file you get all the info you need to install

Hi!

paehler can you send me thies files to? i need qt 3.3.1 to. email: cybers19 at gmx.net

THX

Like I stated before:

you can make the effort yourself by downloading them from trolltech

to stuppie:

are you refering to qt-x11-free-3.3.1.tar.bz2 or the spec file for building an rpm package?
the files discussed here are the (modified) Mandrake spec file to build an rpm package
and some additional (non-standard) files dsitributed with Mandrake.
the qt...bz2 file that I have does not contain those -keep in mind the very first post was:
update qt 3.3 in mandrake... how to? - not how to build qt3 in general.

hi paehler

thx for the files! the compilation finished successfully.

Hi,

May ask for qt3.3 spec file. Could you please send it to me through email mar_10 (at) interia.pl . Thenks in advance.


cheers
Marcin