[PyKDE] Installing eric3

[Sergei Mikhailov]

Yes, I am running Linux. Fedora Core 1. I guess the same thing as RedHat 9.0

At 04:48 PM 2/1/2004, you wrote:
>Just in case: if you are using Linux, please mention your distribution and
>version. There may be simpler ways to get eric3 :-)
>
>
> > I am trying to install eric3, the pythong ide. eric3's README said that
> > first Qt, QScintilla, Sip, and PyQt need to be installed. QT was alrady
> > installed on my system, so I started with QScintilla.
> >
> > I tried installing all these libraries from rpms, but it did not work, so
> > I tried from source. When making qscintilla, the following error occurs.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/libqscintilla.so.3.0.0] Error 1
> >
> > I looked in the Makefile and the line that causes this is:
> > LIBS     = $(SUBLIBS) -L$(QTDIR)/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11
> > -lm -lpthread
> >
> > I tried removing -lXext (probably not a good idea), it errored out on the
> > next flag, -lX11. When I took that out, if finished ok.
> >
> > When I started installing SIP from source, same errors occured. I do not
> > want to proceed to installing PyQt and Eric until I resolve these errors.
> >
> > BTW, the reason why rpm installation did not work is because when eric was
> > loading, it could not find the qtext module.
> >
> > Any advise appriciated.
> > Sergei
> >
> >
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