[Qt-creator] Installing on Ubunto 8

[Dat Chu]

I guess you find the installation of QtCreator on Linux a bit strange
because you are not used to it. For me, you download a binary (bin file),
and explicitly tell the computer that I trust this bin file enough to make
it runnable (chmod). Then the installation finishes and I don't have to do
anything else. This makes perfect sense.

Designer, Linguist and Assistant are not installed because they are part of
QtCreator (check out Help section for Assistant), open a ui file and it
works just like Designer. I have not tried Linguist but I assume that it is
there too. Since everything is included with the bin file, you don't need to
install application separately. Although if you prefer separate application,
the package qt4-dev-tools on Ubuntu repo is what you want to install.

Regarding the need to install build-essential equivalent package, this
problem can be mitigated if you have decided to use the QtCreator version
packaged for Ubuntu. Although it is not so at the moment, package maintainer
for qt-creator can make it dependable on build-essential. I guess, at this
part, a helpful NOTICE line on QtCreator installation page will be very
useful.

For the freetype linker error, well, it is beyond Qt control.

Anyway, happy QtCreatoring.

With warm regards,

Dat Chu


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Price <deepblue842 at googlemail.com>wrote:

> The qt installer and documentation for linux is lacking next to that of
> Windows of OSX. It ships as a text-executable which must be tweaked before
> it can run and strangely, it does not install the Designer, Linguist or
> Assistant.
>
> It would also be nice if the additional steps required to install GCC were
> mentioned somewhere - I'm new to Linux and it was not obvious to me.
>
> Still these are all minor things given that it's LGPL and the ability to
> run Creator on all major platforms and just build the app is fantastic! :)
>
> On 12 Jul 2009, at 02:47, Dat Chu wrote:
>
> My bad. It is weird that it doesn't install everything. But the problem
> which your make complains is with libfreetype-dev package not installed
> though.
>
> The gcc package must be depending on the libfreetype-dev package which then
> solve your problem.
>
> Dat Chu
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Price <deepblue842 at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Read my email - I did that. It's does not appear to install all of GCC.
>>
>> On 12 Jul 2009, at 01:42, Dat Chu wrote:
>>
>> Don't you suppose to install build-essential package in Ubuntu when you
>> develop stuff?
>>
>> On Jul 11, 2009 7:14 PM, "Daniel Price" <deepblue842 at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Ok problem solved, GCC was not fully installed!
>>
>> Run the following after running the qt installer:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install gcc
>>
>> On 11 Jul 2009, at 23:52, Daniel Price wrote: > Hi I've just installed the
>> latest qt SDK on a fres...
>>
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