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

[Elfen]

er, you can uninstall with /opt/qtsdk-2010.02/bin/uninstall

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Elfen <pem.accounts.spam at gmail.com> wrote:

> hmmm...  And now I have to figure out how to uninstall /opt/qtsdk-2010.02/
> ...
>
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Elfen <pem.accounts.spam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > If you use the qt creator which comes with suse this is no problem.
>>
>> okay, but Qt Creator 1.2 is really old?  I wonder how long until the
>> openSUSE repo has Qt Creator 2.0?  Plus, if I'm doing cross-platform
>> development...  Isn't it best to have Qt Creator 1.3 on all platforms?  (And
>> Qt Creator 2.0 when it's released).
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> You mean /opt/qtsdk-2010.02/qt/bin/qmake ?  Yes this worked.  However,
>> when I open a project, now it says I have to copy the project to a writable
>> location, to edit or compile the sample project.
>>
>> So, overall, I guess I generally understand the difference...
>> /opt/qtsdk-2010.02/ is read-only and meant for the system,.  While
>> /home/user/[my user name]/qtsdk-2010.02/ is writable and meant only for my
>> user.  However, I still don't know which is the "right" / "best" / "ideal"
>> choice.  Sounds like the default of ( /user/[my user name]/qtsdk-2010.02/ )
>> is easier... unless I missed something?
>>
>>
>> thank you for info
>>
>>
>> 2010/5/3 Thorbjørn Lindeijer <thorbjorn.lindeijer at nokia.com>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thorbjørn Lindeijer
>>> Software Engineer
>>> Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
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>>
>>
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