i'm wanting to compile some qt4 code, so i'm trying to install qt4 this way:

apt-get install qt4-dev-tools

but i get this:

E: Couldn't find package qt4-dev-tools


am i not looking at the latest packages available? i've performed:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

what am i doing wrong?

You didn't post your distro. Can you try yum instead of apt-get?

Either way- you have to configure either tool to tell it where to look.

You have to add a repository or two - to say where to look for the files...

I'm thinking you are gnome? QT is a pain

This bit did work on Fedora 4 ( a package type install)

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Order is important!

# rpm -Uvh qt-*.rpm --force --nodeps
# rpm -Uvh arts-*.rpm --force --nodeps
?? # rpm -Uvh quanta-*.rpm --force --nodeps ?? Hope it's not important
# rpm -Uvh kde-*.rpm --force --nodeps

Should do it!

./configure --enable-libsuffix=64 --without-kde --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt


AMD, Gnome and a symlink


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HTH
- alar

i'm using ubuntu dapper drake

i've just been using the apt-get, i haven't tried to install it from source.

as far as repositories, i get this response when updating:

root@ubuntu-server:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]


is there a better way to check my repos? also, should i be connecting to a different one? i haven't changed any (or know how to)

No Yum on Ubuntu eh?
With apt-get i see:

root@xyz:/home/123# apt-get install qt4-dev-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-gui
Recommended packages:
qt4-qtconfig libqt4-dev qt4-doc qt4-designer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-gui qt4-dev-tools
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 4059kB of archives.
After unpacking, 10.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

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So mebbe it is your repository. Did you run automatix?
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In /etc/apt

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## Automatix sources.list
## This is automatically generated by Automatix


####################################
### Official Ubuntu Repositories ###
####################################

# Dapper Final Release Repository
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse

# Dapper Security Updates
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security multiverse

# Dapper Bugfix Updates
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates multiverse

# Dapper Backports (new software versions, provided by the Ubuntu Backports Project)
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main

#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports restricted
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports universe
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports universe

#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports multiverse
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports multiverse

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

##############################
### Automatix Repositories ###
##############################

deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt dapper main

## created by automatixrepo3
deb http://wine.lowvoice.nl/apt dapper main
deb http://theli.free.fr/packages/ dapper listen
deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/deb ./
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main

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Don't take this as gospel. Run Automatix to get an accurate list.

Bonne chance,
Alar

Look at:
install-climber.blogspot.com/2011/06/installing-complete-qt-4-environment-on.html

magicg
Please DO NOT resurrect a dead thread from 2006