[Qt-creator] where should I install Qt Creator / Qt SDK, on Linux?

[August Hörandl]

Am Donnerstag 29 April 2010 schrieb nobodyhere:
> Thank you for this explanation, and the Linux penguin ascii art,
> 
> Okay, then it sounds like it's really:
> 1) automatic package repository installs, deb / rpm / ypm (ubuntu,
> fedora, opensuse) packages 2) bin files, compile from source, zip /
> folder
> 
> For the example of FireFox (and Subversion), I can just use 3.5.9
> until openSUSE adds 3.6.3 to the package repository.  So maybe for
> most things it is fine to just trust (openSUSE / Fedora / Ubuntu)
> repository packages.
> 
> But for some programs, I have to install it separately...  Either
> because the repo pkg is so far behind, or because it's not in the
> repo pkg.  Examples might include Qt SDK (Skype?  MonoDevelop? 
> DropBox?)...

Either get a distribution which is more up to date (arch, gentoo comes 
to my mind - both have this packages in their repository) or install 
yourself. But try not to break any other packages ;-)

> But my next question is...
> 
> > So /home/user/qt-sdk
> 
> My partitions include swap, / (ie, the root), /home/.
> 
> Are you suggesting to install it in "/home/[user name]/qt-sdk" rather
> than "/usr/opt/qt-sdk" or "/usr/my_installs/qt-sdk"?

not really - whatever fits your needs, qt-sdk is quite large, they linux 
files system standard (FHS - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) would argue 
against this, but this is linux 

HTH
Gustl

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