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From: @(none)
Date: 9 Feb 2004 13:21:29
Message: <4027cfa9$1@news.povray.org>

>> Some time ago I wanted to upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2 and the result was a 
>> complete mess-> I had to reinstall my system.... Could you post a 
>> version that works with qt-3.1?
>>
>> I have a Mandrake 9.2
> 
> 
> I have Mandrake 9.2, too. And yes, the first time I installed 3.2 it 
> ruined my system, too. I got it working now, however.
> 
> Here's what I did (But I'm just another Linux newbie and I'm not 
> responsible for anything here :)
> 
> You need Qt3.2 only for *compiling* the thing, it will *run* with Qt3.1, 
> too (Now that was hard to understand for me).
> 
> I installed Qt 3.2 *without* deinstalling Qt 3.1, so that I now have 
> Qt3.1 and 3.2 installed on my system (I installed it the normal way, 
> setting the environment variables like described in the README and using 
> ./configure && make && make install, but in another directory than 3.1 
> which is in /usr/lib/qt3 on Mandrake 9.2).
> You mustn't set the new environment at system start, however, because 
> KDE won't start with them. Instead, create a bash script which sets them 
> for you and call it like this before compliling the app:
> 
> $ . qtvars
> $ qmake
> $ make
> 
> (when the script is called qtvars, of course). Notice the ". " (dot 
> space that is) before the filename, so that the environmental variables 
> will be taken over to your current shell.
> 
> FYI: Qt3.3 was released these days. Perhaphs you want to go for that 
> instead.
> 
> If you don't want to install Qt3.2 I can send you a compiled version. 
> Don't know if it will run on your system though, although there should 
> be no problems. To be on the safe side, include some system information 
> like processor (i386,...,i686 etc.).
> 
> HTH
> Florian
> 
I forgot : My system is an AMD XP 1800, 512 Mo, Mandrake.

Thanks


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