[PyKDE] Still fighting to have PyQt working

[Boudewijn Rempt]

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On Saturday 17 November 2001 19:23, Luca Fini wrote:
> I've installed PyQt-2.5 but I'm not able yet to get it working.
>

I admire your perseverance! Let's have another try. If you previously
used the standard rpm's from RedHat, you might want to experiment with
source now.

Get qt-2.3.1 (2.3.2 is flawed), configure and make it, and link the location
of the source to /usr/local/qt2, add /usr/local/qt2/lib to the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or /etc/ld.so.conf.

Get Python (the latest beta really is good), make and install it in 
/usr/local/.

You already have sip and PyQt, but make clean them, and then first configure
sip with your custom qt in /usr/local/qt and your custom python in 
/usr/local/bin. There are ./configure switches for those:

./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/local/qt3 \
  --with-qt-includes=/usr/local/qt3/include \
  --with-qt-mocdir=/usr/local/qt3/bin \
  --with-qt-libraries=/usr/local/qt3/lib \
  --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python

If sip has been installed (to /usr/local of course), do the same with
PyQt. 

After giving ldconfig (as root, if you've added /usr/local/qt2/lib to 
ld.so.confg), you should be able to try the examples:

/usr/local/bin/python examples/application.py

If you try it this way, you should be totally independent from the Linux
distro - except perhaps for the compiler (you're not using gcc 2.96, are 
you?). This doesn't help in finding out _why_ the install doesn't work
with standard Redhat rpm's, but it should give you a usable system.

If all else fails - SuSE includes binaries of PyQt and sip in its 
distribution. Perhaps those are installable on Redhat, too?

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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