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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)
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It's Qt4 for many many months, it's not Qt3.
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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" "${_lib}VBox.so.4"
#done
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Look in the PKGBUILD, specifically:
# Replace VirtualBox built-in Qt by system Qt libraries (disabled as of # 2010-03-26, 3.1.6-1) #for _lib in libQt{Core,Gui,Network,OpenGL}; do # rm "${_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.
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Those # in front are comments, you'd want to try uncommenting the lines indicated.
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codycarey wrote: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)
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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!
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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)
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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.
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Still, it was an unthemed Qt4, not 3.
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