On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> [irrelevant portions removed]
> > # cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/lib/qt-2.2.1/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/lib/qt-1.44/lib
*note the re-order*
> >
> Okay, kdm is being linked against Qt libraries in /usr/lib.
>
> However, the current favored method to handle multiple versions of
> Qt at once (on RPM-based systems, anyway) is to place them in
> /usr/lib/qt-$VERSION/ branches, and put nothing into /usr/lib/.
> Yet you have one in that location. I suspect it is that Mandrake
> RPM (qt2-2.1.0-6mdk). You might start by removing that. (If you
> have something that needs Qt 2.1.0, you can get "proper" RPMs from
> http://rpmfind.net).
>
qt2-2.1.0-6mdk does use the /usr/lib/qt2/ branch. Nonetheless, I'm
getting non-mandrake rpms now. :)
> If KDE still doesn't work, double-check the version of Qt that the KDE
> packages you have were compiled against. For example, if they require 2.2.2,
> then 2.2.<anything_else> is probably not going to work. If that is the case,
> install (not "upgrade to"!) the right version of the Qt libraries.
>
How do I do this? The qt version I got, (qt-2.2.1) was part of the kde
"package" at SourceForge.
> If KDE *still* doesn't work, it may be the dynamic linker is making the
> wrong decision as to which version of the Qt libraries to link KDE against.
> You can override the dynamic linker's default library path in that case.
> First, enter runlevel 3 (i.e., X11 is not running) and get a command prompt.
> Then type "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-$VERSION/lib", where "$VERSION"
> is the version of Qt that KDE needs. Then run "kde" and see what happens.
>
That didn't work either. :(
--
Thomas M. Albright
Albright Enterprises - "The Small Business Solution"
http://www.albrightent.com/
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