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

[Thorbjørn Lindeijer]

On 04/30/2010 10:04 AM, ext Alex Richardson 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.

Exactly. Also, when you run the installer as root, it already defaults 
to installing in /opt.

That you don't get a GUI installer when running with sudo is strange. At 
least on Ubuntu this works fine for me.

Regards,
Bjørn

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Thorbjørn Lindeijer
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks