[scribus] Qt 4.6

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Thu Jul 29 20:40:09 CEST 2010


On Wednesday 28 July 2010 16:38:09 Owen wrote:
> > As often happens the race to use the very latest libs leaves users
>
> like me in
>
> > the dust. Up to July 7 or so the bleeding edge version of 1.5.0
> > compiled
> > happily with an earlier Qt. Now I am stuck with the July 7th
>
> version.
>
> > The
> > latest 1.3.8 also requires 4.6.
> > Are there any Linux distros that include/use Qt 4.6?
>
> Well, the latest Ubuntu does.
>
> However, why don't you download the source and build it yourself. Go
> to http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and download Qt libraries 4.6.3 for
> Linux/X11(161 MB)
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> will put it in /usr/local
>
> Read the INSTALL to get it into your PATH
>
> It takes a couple of hours to build on a fast machine

OK did it. Latest 1.5.0 is compiling away. Thanks for your guidance.

I hope the extra features on the latest Qt make it all worth while.
-- 
John Culleton
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