After a while, one gets tired of the "what version of Qt are you running?" so I downloaded the new 3.3 version from Trolltech.
Since this was the first success I have had I thought I would share my experience, since the time that it takes to compile Qt is frustrating when it doesn't work -- seems like it takes all day. The first issue is figuring out what the <bleep /> to do with the "old" Qt, especially since mine, like I'm sure many others, is an RPM, so tracking down all the bits of Qt with rpm -e is frustrating, and then you get all the complaints about dependencies. Sometimes I will just use the --nodeps flag, but that's always worrisome, especially when you don't know if the replacement will be successful. So I download Qt 3.3 from Trolltech, check the INSTALL info. It wants to go to /usr/local and set up shop there. My old rpm Qt is mostly but not entirely seemingly in /usr/lib. So what I decide to do is to just 'mv /usr/lib/qt-3.1 /usr/lib/OLD.QT' so at least I can recoup if I fail. So the next thing is to add the QTLIB.... lines to /etc/profile like it says in INSTALL. I copy qt-X11-free-3.3.0.tar.gz to /usr/local, unzip, untar, then change the name of the directory to /usr/local/qt, cd to that. Run './configure', then 'make' (this takes a l-o-o-o-ng time even on my P4 2.66GHz). I'm not sure whether I need to, but then run 'make install' for good measure (? - you know, the INSTALL file is a little unclear on this). Then I go to my 1.1.5cvs directory, try to './configure' and OUCH! -- I needed the -thread option when I configured Qt! BACK to /usr/local/qt, 'make clean', then re-read INSTALL, think I'll get fancy and redirect './configure' with '-libdir /usr/local/lib...'; fortunately, this didn't even survive configure, so I didn't waste a whole new make process with Qt. So-o-o back to original plan, './configure -thread' this time; run 'make', but decide to skip 'make install'(?) THIS time Scribus 1.1.5cvs configures fine, make, make install are OK, and Scribus is running fine on Qt 3.3! Having done this, I still have questions about whether I needed to do all this, and what do I do with all the shards of Qt 3.1 still in my system. Perhaps someone else can tell me more. Gregory Pittman
