PyQt setup on Linux Mandrake 8.2

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On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:33:00 +0000, dwelch wrote:

> Armin Steinhoff wrote:
>> dwelch <dwelch91 at nospam.attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3D8B4898.20808 at nospam.attbi.com>...
>> 
>>>I would like to setup PyQt 3.4 on my Mandrake 8.2 box. I am having 
>>>difficulty, and I am worried that if I do the wrong thing, KDE will go 
>>>belly-up on me since it is Qt based.
>>>
>>>First, question is: why isn't QTDIR defined by default? 
>>>
>> 
>> PyQt works with Qt2.x.x and Qt 3.x.x ... so YOU have to choose the
>> correct directory.
>> 
>> 
>>>Is QTDIR a 
>>>runtime setting or a development setting?
>>>
>> 
>> Both ..
>> 
>> 
>>>So I set QTDIR to /usr/lib/qt2 (that seems to be where the libqt2 RPMs 
>>>files are). Next question is: Since I have libqt2 already on my system, 
>>>how do I add the Qt development pieces without screwing up Qt/KDE? Is 
>>>/usr/lib/qt2 even the correct location?
>>>
>> 
>> Yes ... if you want to use only the latest version of Qt 2.x.x
>>  
>> 
>>>When I run SIP 3.4 build.py, it complains about tmake not being 
>>>available. Is tmake included with Qt2 development files?
>>>
>> 
>> It's available at the Trolltech homepage or its mirrors.
>> 
>> 
>>>SIP doesn't 
>>>seem to have any docs, so I'm not sure how to proceed.
>>>
>> 
>> Nomally you haven't to care about SIP ..
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>>Also, my RPM manager says that I have libqt2-devel (2.3.1-29mdk) 
>>>installed. No tmake listed in the files, though. And, PyQt-devel 
>>>(2.5-1mdk) is also listed as installed, but there aren't any .py files 
>>>included, only .sip files (I found this curious).
>>>
>> 
>> Corious ... there must be examples included.
>>  
>> I would suggest to dowload the latest version of Qt from the Trolltech
>> homepage, just for a simple and clean recompilation.
>> 
>> And do the same with SIP and PyQt from the Riverbank homepage ...
>> 
>> It seems to be better to forget that outdated stuff provided by the 
>> Mandrake distribution ...
>> 
>> Armin
>> 
>> 
>>>Installing software on Linux makes me feel like such an idiot!
>>>
>>>Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>>Don
>>>
> 
> OK, I found and installed tmake. Now, SIP can't find some of the Qt 
> pieces it needs. So, I still don't understand the situation with Qt. Is 
> it really possible to install and run my applications that I write with 
> say Qt 3.0.5, when KDE on my system is using Qt 2.3.1? How does/would 
> KDE know which version to use? How will my apps know what version to 
> use? I am assuming there can only be one QTDIR active on a system at a 
> time...

I'm not sure. But perhaps you can also use qmake, which is located
in the libqt3-devel-3.0.5 RPM. This package contains also header files for
the compilation of  Qt3 apps.

For compilation perhaps setting QTDIR is enough. Maybe you have to set
something like --qt-dir during configure (try configure --help).
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Don

Ralf.