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Rulatir

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Registered: 2007-02-05

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[solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

The qt-config utility (the one with which you could "switch" between qt3 and qt4) recently vanished. Is there a known definite solution to this problem, i.e. a way to set EXACTLY the same states/variables/symlinks/whatever that were set with "qt-config qt" and "qt-config qt4"?

And by the way, why was qt-config removed?

Last edited by Rulatir (2009-01-11 11:14:19)

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

Are you having problems with ugly VirtualBox, Opera and other qt applications too?

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Rulatir

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Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

Are you having problems with ugly VirtualBox, Opera and other qt applications too?

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding. The utility to configure the look&feel of QT is qtconfig, without the dash. It is still in the distro. What vanished is qt-config, a utility that sets up build environment for compiling QT programs. AFAIK it has nothing to do with running applications.

andyprior

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From: Fleet, UK

Registered: 2005-04-09

Posts: 19

Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

I was about to compile something under QT4 and on checking $QTDIR found it pointing to /opt/qt ie QT3.  Went to use qt-config to change the profile and not only found that the script is now missing but also the qt4.sh profile has changed to the single line "export QMAKESPEC=linux-g++".

I note that there are 2 repository entries for the package QT, one is 3.3.8-5 in extra and the other is 4.3.2-3 in testing.

Can anyone explain what is happening at the moment regarding QT3 and QT4?

djclue917

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Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 121

Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

Because KDE 4.0 is just around the corner, qt4 from [community] will be moved to [extra] as qt. qt (3.3.8) will then be renamed to qt3 (still in [extra]).

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 02910.html

As for the QT4 compilation, you won't need the qt-config anymore because qt4 is the "default" qt.

$ which qmake
/usr/bin/qmake
$ qmake -v
QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.3.2 in /usr/lib

For Qt4 compilation:

source /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh
qmake (I explicitly use the /usr/bin prefix though)
make
...

For Qt3:

source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
${QTDIR}/bin/qmake
make
...

lloeki

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Registered: 2007-02-20

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Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

trivial note: isn't it a bit incoherent to have /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh for qt4 and /etc/profile.d/qt.sh for qt3, while the packages are renamed to 'qt' for qt4 and 'qt3' for qt3?

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djclue917

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Re: [solved] Need DEFINITE solution to 'no more qt-config' problem

Those packages are still in [testing]