this afternoon i attempted to install some new software. promptly, ./configure fell over and told me --

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

boioioioing!!!! i was quite sure that qt2.2.2 would be installed with my system (it's mandrake 9). but alas. i went looking for the appropriate packages and i must confess i'm not sure what i'm looking for -- i found a qt3 rpm and a libqt3 rpm (i'm not that experienced) and allowed my package manager to install them. it worked.

i went back, deleted config.cache and ran ./configure again. no luck. i removed the qt2 rpms and added the path to the libqt-mt libraries in my /etc/ld.so.conf file. ran ./configure again. no luck.

so how the heck do i properly install QT? someone told me to change QTPATH etc. can anyone clarify/elaborate?

thanks a bunch ... i'm looking forward to being skilled enough to help others!

rob

presumably you do not have the qt2-devel package installed

Mandrake 9.0 installs Qt-3.something to your system. The problem is that Qt-3.* and Qt-2.* are not binary compatible, so whatever software requires Qt-2.* won't run with Qt-3.*. The solution is the following:
Get qt-x11-2.2.2.tar.gz from ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source and put it into /usr/lib directory. Gunzip it, untar it (it should create some qt-x11-2.2.2 directory, or something like that) and compile it (I think it would be a good idea to compile it as static library, not a shared one). Sorry, I know this takes time, but I recommend not to install Qt-2.2.2 through RPM, since it will complain about Qt-3 already installed. After Qt-2 is compiled, set the QTDIR variable to point to /usr/lib/qt-x11-2.2.2 directory (or whatever was created when untarred) (use export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-x11-2.2.2/ ) and try to compile your application again. Don't make QTDIR permanently to point to this directory, otherwise other applications that use Qt-3 won't work. Good luck.

thanks guys! i'll give it a shot. br ..

This was excellent advice from OAnimal, it provided a straight forward solution to an obviously backwards problem (pun not intended).

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