[Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt download page

Tomasz Siekierda sierdzio at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 12:38:00 CET 2013


>> Isn't mesa/ OpenGL driver also needed? And stuff like libicu libxslt (non-
>> dev)?
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> I guess libicu, libxcb should be there on most systems by default, as well an OpenGL driver. It really depends on the distribution/version that you're trying :) But AFAIK one can install Qt on a stock Ubuntu 11.0 without any additional dependencies except for the build-essentials.
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> Other distributions might need something - but since it's usually very specific to the distribution I think this should be added when one bumps into it.
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> If there's something people run often into we can also add  a check to the installer, and show a warning if e.g. g++ isn't found in the PATH.

Either that (IIRC, Nokia SDK did check for g++), or add some paragraph
with explanation to qt-project.org/downloads. It might be all obvious
for us, but some newbies are really struggling sometimes. And there
are lots of new people coming to Qt, at least judging from my reading
of the forums.



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