QT Updating

[HopalongKid]

Thanks again for the work on SEQ.

Is it possible for someone to throw me a bone or 2 in how to go about updating from QT 3.1.1? I have spent several hours searching site after site, trying to use the Redhat autoupdate, and googling. I am lost.

Thanks in advance will be watching this thread.


( I almost posted this in the 5.0.0.23 thread. At least I got the right forum 8^).

[purple]

Which Red Hat distribution do you use? There's probably a package for it, you just need to find it.

Find rpms for qt (http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=qt&submit=Search+...) was like one google search for me! Then you do something like rpm -U <package you downloaded> or something. I've never used Red Hat, but this whole thing is actually really pretty easy...

[HopalongKid]

There are several Red Hat 9 choices at the site you listed. Is there any hard and fast way of determining the exact distribution that I have installed short of having the disks I used to install it?

I believe I have Red Hat Linux 9.0

[Cryonic]

There is only one RH9 choice from that link and that is still 3.1.1. A few choices avail themselves to you:

1) download the source for QT:ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-free-3.3.4.tar.bz2 and compile it yourself on your system

2) Try an RPM that isn't specifically for RH9 and hope it updates nicely

3) Update to FC3 from RH9: http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64

[HopalongKid]

Thanks for the help Cryonic and Purple. I guess I have some choices to make.

[HopalongKid]

Would FC 4 be a feasable choice? Instead of FC 3?

[purple]

RPM for qt 3.3.4 (http://ftp.sayclub.com/pub/X/KDE/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/redhat/9/i386/RPMS/qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm)

Maybe that will work for you? I use gentoo, so I got no idea how Red Hat works. I just played with google until I found an rpm for red hat 9.

[purple]

I don't know if seq needs qt-devel too, but if so, it is there too (http://ftp.sayclub.com/pub/X/KDE/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/redhat/9/i386/RPMS/qt-devel-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm).

[BlueAdept]

Would FC 4 be a feasable choice? Instead of FC 3?

FC 4 has some issues. If you feel adventurous you can try FC4. FC 3 compiles "out of the box".

[SEQ-Lurker]

First off, let my qualify this post by saying that I'm pretty much a Linux noob. Matter of fact, I've been using SEQ for many years now and the install / update process has tought me much of what I know about Linux. Just keep this in mind when reading this post, since it's not uncommon for me to completely pooch something and have to reinstall and start from scratch.

Secondly, this post is probably more appropriate under another thread more specific to Fedora Core 4 not working out of the box. But Fedora Core 4 and its issues with SEQ was referenced here.

In any case, Fedora Core 4 uses gcc 4.0.0-8 (or at least that's what my "install.log" says).

I was able to use this post by serberus to find tar files for gcc 3.4.3 (don't ask me why I didn't use 3.4.4, noobishness I guess, had trouble in the past using the "last in the line" packages before with automake or something, can't remember).

http://www.showeq.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5211

Note that this thread doesn't point you to gcc, but it points you to some source sites that you can root around and find it. It also gives some instructions on how to compile the packages it references, an SEQ goldmine for me.

I think y'all can see where I'm headed. Fedora Core 4 doesn't allow SEQ to install with it's default version of gcc, but if you download a previous version, unpack it, and compile that using the instructions provided in the tar file (takes hours), SEQ installs peachy.

Hope this helps. Keep up the great work!

SEQL

[HopalongKid]

I tried to install the RPM from link you posted. I got a few error messages. Since I am not too good at Linux, thought I could post them here. Will the qt-devel fix them? Or do I need to do something different?

[root@localhost maps]# rpm -U qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm
]warning: qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ff6382fa
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/etc/settings/qtrc is needed by qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde
redhat-artwork >= 0.100 is needed by qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde
libdesigner.so.1 is needed by (installed) qt-designer-3.1.1-6
libeditor.so.1 is needed by (installed) qt-designer-3.1.1-6
libqassistantclient.so.1 is needed by (installed) qt-designer-3.1.1-6
libqassistantclient.so.1 is needed by (installed) PyQt-3.5-5
qt = 1:3.1.1-6 is needed by (installed) qt-devel-3.1.1-6
qt = 1:3.1.1-6 is needed by (installed) qt-MySQL-3.1.1-6
qt = 1:3.1.1-6 is needed by (installed) qt-PostgreSQL-3.1.1-6
qt = 1:3.1.1-6 is needed by (installed) qt-ODBC-3.1.1-6
/usr/lib/qt-3.1 is needed by (installed) redhat-artwork-0.73-1
[root@localhost maps]# ]


Or do I need to install in root directory ?

[Dedpoet]

I'm also still using RH9 and got sick of following the dependencies. This may be bad form, but I just said screw it to all of the kde art stuff, and removed my old qt packages with "rpm --erase <old package>" and then forced the install with "rpm -Uv --nodeps qt-3.3.4-5.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm" and then repeated for the qt-devel package.

I'm not sure if that will break other stuff, but Seq works great and I haven't had any other problems so far. YMMV.

[a monk]

Cryonic's post, option 1, also works, thx man!

[ieatacid]

I tried option 1 but after finally getting it to use qt 3.3.4 I was getting guild list window and itemdb errors when I compiled - the same QString errors I was getting prior to upgrading qt. Then I tried option 3 and downloaded and installed FC3 today and it compiled without a hitch.

[HopalongKid]

I too am going with FC3. A definitive cure.

[eqhunter]

Im getting a QT install error. its late and Im missing some stuff... I would just like to know if others are getting the errors. I'll do my search tomorrow so please no flames. but will post of others are getting the same error..

My error are below

warning: qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
/etc/ld.so.conf.d is needed by qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0
libXinerama.so.1 is needed by qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0
qt = 1:3.1.2-13.4 is needed by (installed) qt-devel-3.1.2-13.4
qt = 1:3.1.2-13.4 is needed by (installed) qt-MySQL-3.1.2-13.4
/usr/lib/qt-3.1 is needed by (installed) redhat-artwork-0.73.2-2E
[root@localhost qtdownload]# qt-MySQL-3.1.2-13.4.i386.rpm