I have a software that depends on pyQt (it's TortoiseHG and it doesn't support pyside). Is it possible to build pyQt on latest OSX version with latest Qt? I have downloaded pyQt from official website (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk) but it fails on first, configuration step with "i386 architecture" link error.
MacPorts has numerous PyQT builds (including version 4.9.1 at time of writing) so it appears to be possible.
If just getting it via MacPorts (recommended) isn't an option, you can examine their portfile to see how they're configuring and building it, and then do the same locally.
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I'm using Cygwin, and I am really impressed with the enhanced functionality of my Windows pc! However, I ran into a problem.
In order to setup Magento 2 on my Windows 8.1 Home pc, I need a virtual machine. Therefore I want to install libvirt, an open-source package that seems pretty old. However,on a Windows Home pc, it seems the only option. For libvirt to work, I need to setup an older version of libxml2: 2.6.0. Libvirt would not work with libxml2 2.7.0.
Installing libxml2 version 2.6.0 calls an old version of automake (1.6.3), which is unable to recognize my Windows file system.
I have tried changing aclocal.m4, replacing 'automake 1.6.3' to 'automake 1.15.1', but that didn't work:
AC_DEFUN([AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION],[am__api_version="1.15.1"])
AC_DEFUN([AM_SET_CURRENT_AUTOMAKE_VERSION],
[AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION([1.15.1])])
Is there a way to install the old libxml2 version (2.6.0) using a new version of automake?
p.s.: I hope I made my issue clear. I apologize for newbee errors in my writing.
I am trying to build a program as most others available on linux:
configure, make, make install.
However when I try to configure it I get the following message:
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path?
I have got gtk 2.x on the host machine. And when I run which and locate on gtk-config I get nothing back. Since I have the source what patches can I apply to fix this?
You need to install the development files for GTK 1.2; the name of the package depends on your distribution.
I'd like to warn you, though, that GTK 1.2 was last released 15 years ago, in 2001, and hasn't been updated since — which also implies that the application you're trying to build is also hopelessly outdated.
GTK+ 2.0.0 was also released in 2001 and it's currently in deep maintenance mode (the latest version is 2.24.29 and was released in 2015); GTK+ 3.0.0 was released in 2011, and it's the currently developed version of the API.
You cannot really apply patches to compile an application written with the GTK 1.x API using any newer major versions of GTK+ (e.g. 2.x or 3.x); each time the major version of GTK is bumped, the API is changed in a non-compatible way. You would need to port the application to the new API.
Additionally, if an application depends on GTK 1.x it's also likely that it will depend on older versions of existing libraries; or deprecated ones. You will need to find all the dependencies and ensure that they can be installed in parallel with the ones you have installed in your system.
You could try using the compatibility wrappers developed by OpenSUSE team that try to emulate GTK1.2 by some wrappers and/or automatically patching source code to be compiled, to be able to use GTK2.0 instead.
Have a look at https://github.com/openSUSE/gtk1-compat - perhaps it may work for you. I didn't test it, however, myself.
I install the latest qt version from the official website http://www.qt.io/qt5-4/ successfully. I follow this tutorial http://sysads.co.uk/2014/05/install-qt-5-3-ubuntu-14-04 and install the qt 5.4 version. Besides, I have the Ubuntu repository version of qt 5.2.1 installed.
Now I want to make the default version of 5.4 due to a program can't work well in the old qt5 version. That is to say, when I start a program which need to use qt5 library the program will use the version 5.4 rather than the version qt 5.2. Though I have installed the version 5.4 and 5.2, the program still use qt 5.2 version.
I try to use qtchooser to choose the 5.4 version as the default option, however, the program installed in the system still use the qt 5.2 library.
I endeavor to modify the related files regarding qtchooser, nothing changes.
If the library version is not in some regular repository, I would strongly suggest not relying on the user to install it somehow from an "unofficial" install location. Or provide a package for the library version yourself to install alongside your application. But don't replace the system Qt version. That would be Bad®.
Instead, either compile your program with a specific rpath, or wrap your program in scripts that use something like LD_PRELOAD and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load the library version you're shipping in your application package.
Both ways are clunky, and I would try to at least work around the Qt version bug if at all possible.
The latest Qt version (non-alpha) actually is Qt 5.5.
If you install it through the installer provided by Qt, you should change the default Qt version by editing/creating:
/etc/xdg/qtchooser/default.conf
which should contain first the bin directory, then the lib directory, for example:
/opt/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin
/opt/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/lib
At least this works for the qmake version. Otherwise you might need to change LD_LIBRARY_PATH as commented by rubenvb.
I tried to install the latest version of kde editor kate, but nothing changed.
I took the source code: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kate;
I followed http://kate-editor.org/get-it/'s instructions;
Now, when I run ~/kde/usr/bin/kate-v is the same version that was:
$ ~/kde/usr/bin/kate -v
Qt: 4.8.6
Plataforma de desenvolvimento KDE: 4.14.1
Kate: 3.14.1
How I do to install the lastest version?
Grateful
First of all: the version in the About dialog is built from the KDE version, so it does not all reflect whether you are running a self-compiled one or not. Second, you should run Kate with all environment variables properly set - just running the executable will probably load the wrong ktexteditor.so library.
The easiest way to get Kate5 is to install a distribution that ships Kate5 (probably along with Plasma 5).
If you already have a KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) environment available, then you can also build Kate5 from sources by following the build instructions. These were updated in June 2015.
If you are still on KDE 4.x and you have no KDE Frameworks 5 packages installed, then you also need to build KDE Frameworks 5 from sources. In this case, you have to follow the KF5 build instructions. If you've questions, feel free to ask on kde-frameworks-devel#kde.org and/or on the Kate mailing list.
While porting Qt project from windows to linux(ubuntu) i faced with the following issue:
on windows Qt version 4.8.1 is installed
on linux 4.6.3 in which some functionalities availiable in higer version 4.8.1 don`t yet implemented (ex. QUdpSocket::joinMultiCastGroup).
I see only one solution to this problem: upgrade Qt version on linux to 4.8.1.
How can I do this?
On linux I got installed libqt4-dev, qmake.
Solved: I changed repository from squeeze (stable) to wheezy(testing), in wheezy latest Qt version is 4.8.1, which is perfectly suits my needs.
Using package manager I found package libqt4-dev and selected it for update.
That is all, the whole process took 5 minutes.
Disadvantages:
- As I run Debian on Virtual Box after changing repository I had to reinstall guest additions
- wheezy is less stable than squeeze (I haven`t faced yet with stablilty problem)
I guess you can use Upgrade option in the Qt Creator.
Or you can download latest version from Download Qt, the cross-platform application framework
Or you could try to update using something like apt-get install(upgrade) libqt4-dev if you using Debian based system.
This depends on the distro you are using. If there are binary packages for your distro you can update through your package manager. Otherwise you have to download the source of your prefered Qt version and build it yourself.
I'm not sure if this will help in your situation, but you can download the Qt Online Installer at the following link:
https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer