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

[Leon Anavi]

Hi All,

> 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.

I agree. The download and the installation of the SDK is the first 
impression that Qt makes to newbies and it is very important. An 
inexperienced student might decide not to use Qt just because of a minor 
issue during the installation.

Thanks,
Leon

On 2013-02-28 13:38, Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
>>> Isn't mesa/ OpenGL driver also needed? And stuff like libicu libxslt 
>>> (non-
>>> dev)?
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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