[PyKDE] PyQt installation problem

[Oded Arbel]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Phil Thompson wrote:

> On Monday 30 December 2002 10:08 am, Oded Arbel wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> > I don't know if this is a newbie question, but I am a python and a Qt
> > newbie, so I apologise in advance.
> >
> > I've compile sip 3.5 and PyQt 3.5 and all apeared to be going well, but
> > when I tried to import qt
> >
> > I got this :
> > -- snip --
> >
> > >>> import qt
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/qt.py", line 39, in ?
> >     import libqtc
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libqtcmodule.so: undefined
> > symbol: _ZNK16QAssistantClient9classNameEv
> > -- snip --
> >
> > Can anyone please clue me in on whats going on and how to fix it ?
> 
> When Qt was built you ran "make install" instead of leaving it in the 
> directory it was built. This breaks the QAssistantClient library.

I'm using Mandrake 9 with the qt 3.1 from RPMs (binary installed - I 
should have mentioned it earlier). is there something I can do besides 
recompiling Qt and keeping two copies of it ? what is QAssistantClient 
anyway, and how can it be broken by moving the binaries ?


--
Oded