[Qt-creator] Linux SDK containing Qt Creator doesn'tbuild projects out of the box

[André Pönitz]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:48:15 ext David Ching wrote:
> "Andre Poenitz" <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote in message 
> news:20091114173314.GB3177 at tu-chemnitz.de...
> > The real "problem" with the Qt SDK package is that what you download
> > from the Nokia website is not integrated into your distribution's
> > packaging system, so you have to intall the dependencies "manually".
> > One line to copy & paste - big deal...
> >
> > ...
> >
> > You either wait for the distributions to pick up your package, or
> > provide packages "native" to your distribution (i.e. .deb for Ubuntu,
> > .rpm for RedHat) yourself, or provide instructions how to install your
> > package manually.
> >
> > For Qt Creator the latter method was chosen (instructions being "install
> > the packages x, y, and z, and run the QtSDK installer")
> 
> Does Qt really tell the one line that installs the necessary dependencies on 
> various Linux distros?  I could not find it.  The closest I could find is 
> the blog
>    http://blog.dixo.net/2009/03/14/using-qt-creator-with-ubuntu-810/
> 
> which advises
> 
>   sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev 
> libsm-dev libglib2.0-dev
> 
> Unless this is common knowledge for anyone but the newbies, I think Qt 
> should provide such info themselves.

See http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/pages/FrequentlyAskedQuestions":

 "What development packages from the distribution are needed on Ubuntu/Debian?"

Andre'