Installing Qmake on SuSe 10.0

josh_o_1 · 02-14-2006, 06:17 AM

I am trying to get qmake to work in suse 10.0. My goal is to run mythtv on it and I need qmake to compile myth 0.19. After searching the forum I found a link that said it was part of the /suse/i586/qt3-devel-3.3.4-28.i586.rpm package. I tried installing this using apt but it still didnt work. Any ideas

abisko00 · 02-14-2006, 06:28 AM

The installation of qmake did not work or the compilation of myth?
What does which qmake return (if installed, it should be /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake)?

djortz · 02-14-2006, 06:29 AM

Qmake might be installed already in a directory mythtv isn't looking. Try to find it: find / -name qmake
It's in /usr/lib/qt3/bin/

I had some difficulties compiling mythtv, so after a search I got to a website that provided me the rpms and a very good howto. Too bad I can't find that site for you and it might be in Dutch.

josh_o_1 · 02-14-2006, 06:40 AM

When I install the package /suse/i586/qt3-devel-3.3.4-28.i586.rpm everything when fine. I then ran the commands (as a usr, not root)

echo $PATH - This should have returned a line: /usr/lib/qt3/bin - but it didn't
echo $QTDIR - This return the following line: /usr/lib/qt3
which qmake - This should have returned a line: /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake - but didn't

This leads me to believe qmake is not working properly

abisko00 · 02-14-2006, 07:25 AM

You could try to add /usr/lib/qt3/bin to your users path variable.

Add export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt3/bin to /etc/profile.local, then run source /etc/profile.local (only needed if you don't restart) and try again.

EDIT: Did you install qt3-devel with YaST or plain rpm? In the later case, you need to run suseconfig to execute the scripts that modify your path variable (at least I believe so).

josh_o_1 · 02-14-2006, 09:12 PM

That worked. I created a line in my /etc/profile.local to be PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt3/bin and did a restart and qt is now working. Thanks for your help..... Now on to getting my Hauppauge Media MVP running