[Qt-creator] Installing on Ubunto 8

[Daniel Price]

On 12 Jul 2009, at 03:31, Dat Chu wrote:

> 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.

Not when you're coming from OSX or WIndows it doesn't. Executable text  
files?! But I get that now :)
>
> 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.

But they ARE installed as part of the default installation on Windows  
and OSX, in addition to Creator. Why, if the functionality is also  
part of Creator?

Creator can get very cramped so it's good to be able to edit .ui files  
in a separate app. Dito for reading docs.

> 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.

Yes and I would use the debian packages usually but they are community  
maintained and are usually quite out of date.

> 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.

Yes I saw it in the package manager, but it is not the latest version.  
It's not obvious if it's just the app or the entire Qt4 framework  
either. But that's hardly Nokia's fault :)

> 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.

Yes.

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

True but 'Exited with code 2.' is a but cryptic. And '/usr/bin/ld:  
cannot find -lfreetype' told me it was a missing library (not obvious  
to someone not familiar with the Unix -L/-l syntax) but what is  
freetype? Or more specifically, libFreetype? A google search indicates  
it is part of the Free Type library, NOT GCC! This led me on a wild  
goose-chase since I had assumed GCC was already in installed with the  
'essentials'...

>
> 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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