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jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

[SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Hello everyone,

I am using Virtualbox_Bin from AUR. Is there a way I can reinstall it but force it to use the QT4 GUI instead of the QT3 GUI? I noticed that the Kubuntu package for Virtualbox uses the QT4 GUI so I am wondering if I can do the same in Arch. Thanks!

Last edited by jlacroix (2010-09-14 02:21:55)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

It's Qt4 for many many months, it's not Qt3.

codycarey

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Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Look in the PKGBUILD, specifically:

# Replace VirtualBox built-in Qt by system Qt libraries (disabled as of
  # 2010-03-26, 3.1.6-1)
  #for _lib in libQt{Core,Gui,Network,OpenGL}; do
  #  rm "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #  ln -s "/usr/lib/${_lib}.so.4" "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #done

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Look in the PKGBUILD, specifically:

# Replace VirtualBox built-in Qt by system Qt libraries (disabled as of
  # 2010-03-26, 3.1.6-1)
  #for _lib in libQt{Core,Gui,Network,OpenGL}; do
  #  rm "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #  ln -s "/usr/lib/${_lib}.so.4" "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #done

That's really strange, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that mine is using QT3, on both my laptop and desktop. I've already tried reinstalling it normally.

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Those # in front are comments, you'd want to try uncommenting the lines indicated.

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codycarey

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Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Look in the PKGBUILD, specifically:

# Replace VirtualBox built-in Qt by system Qt libraries (disabled as of
  # 2010-03-26, 3.1.6-1)
  #for _lib in libQt{Core,Gui,Network,OpenGL}; do
  #  rm "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #  ln -s "/usr/lib/${_lib}.so.4" "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
  #done

That's really strange, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that mine is using QT3, on both my laptop and desktop. I've already tried reinstalling it normally.

Doing the following should reveal exactly what version of Qt your instance of VB is running.

pmap -x <virtualbox PID> | grep Qt

If you run VB as another user you'll likely need to prepend sudo to that.

EDIT: typo

Last edited by codycarey (2010-09-14 00:55:56)

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Those # in front are comments, you'd want to try uncommenting the lines indicated.

That worked! Now Virtualbox looks like the rest of my system. Thanks!

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Then you didn't have Qt3 interface, you had the bundled one which is unthemed I guess.

Last edited by flamelab (2010-09-14 02:30:57)

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Then you didn't have Qt3 interface, you had the bundled one which is unthemed I guess.

I don't know, before it looked exactly like the Plastic theme from KDE 3.5. I remember that theme well because it was what I used back then.

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox_bin: How to get QT4 GUI?

Still, it was an unthemed Qt4, not 3.

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