[PyKDE] Installing PyQt on Mandrake 9.1

[Phil Thompson]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 2:32 pm, Andy Neitzke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would be really grateful for some help in installing PyQt on Mandrake
> 9.1 -- have been tearing my hair out over this.
>
> The story so far:  Since the RPMs don't work for a variety of reasons, I
> tried installing from the latest PyQt, SIP, QScintilla snapshots.  Good,
> they build without a hitch.  But when I try to use them I get:
>
> [andy at teleology andy]$ python
> Python 2.2.2 (#2, Feb  5 2003, 10:40:08)
> [GCC 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-5mdk)] on linux-i386
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> >>> import qt
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PyQt/qt.py", line 25, in ?
>     import libqtc
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PyQt/libqtcmodule.so:
> undefined symbol: _ZNK16QAssistantClient9classNameEv
>
>
> I found some previous discussion of this error and the suggestion was
> that it's because Mandrake's "make install" has improperly stripped the
> symbols out of the QT libraries; the proposed solution was to build QT
> myself and then copy the libraries from the build directory by hand.  So
> I did this:  in particular, my QT directory /usr/lib/qt3/lib now has a
> "libqassistantclient.a" which at least contains the string
> "_ZNK16QAssistantClient9classNameEv".  Nevertheless, I still get the
> error listed above.  Is there something I have to do to get PyQt to
> recognize this library file?  (It is at least looking in the right
> directory, because it complains if I get rid of libqt-mt.so.3.1.1.)
>
> This happens with QT 3.1.1 and Python 2.2.2.  I am a relative novice to
> the intricacies of Python and Linux shared libraries, so forgive me if
> this is a spectacularly stupid question!  But I would be enormously
> grateful to anyone who knows how to get rid of this error.

Did you re-build PyQt after re-building Qt? The problem library is not a 
shared library.

Phil