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

[Eike Ziller]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:40 PM, ext Elfen wrote:

> 1) Yea, I ran into that, so I did "sudo  ./qt-sdk-linux-x86_64-opensource-2010.02.bin".  For whatever reason, this caused it to run a command line installer (instead of a GUI installer).  Strange...
> 
> 2) So it installed, but when I opened Qt Creator, Welcome -> Getting Started -> Explore Qt Examples, it says "Examples not installed".  Strange...

You probably need to tell Qt Creator about your new Qt installation (Tools->Options->Qt4->Versions).
It is a known issue in 1.3, that the installer writes the initial Qt Creator settings *for the root user* if you install as root. So, if you'd start Qt Creator as root user, it would already know about the new Qt version in /opt, but if you start as any other user, it doesn't and you have to tell it manually.

++ Eike

> 3) Hm, I wonder what other non-package Linux installers do about this issue.  The issue is (/opt/ is the FHS standard for install apps) yet (most users don't have permissions to /opt/).  Not much of a standard if no one uses it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Alex Richardson <alex.richardson at gmx.de> wrote:
> > I wonder if Qt Creator should make /opt/qt-sdk-2010.02 the default install
> > path (instead of /home/[user name]/qt-sdk-2010.02), since that's the
> > official FHS standard.
> 
> The problem is that a normal user usually does not have write permission to /opt/, so installing to
> the home directory is safer.
> 
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