[PyKDE] "qt_dir" error installing PyKDE

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.06.06 12:06:36, Christian Mladenov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I get the following error when trying to install the
> latest PyKDE from the site
> (PyKDE-snapshot20060422.tar.gz):
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "configure.py", line 934, in ?
>     main(sys.argv)
>   File "configure.py", line 872, in main
>     inform_user (0)
>   File "configure.py", line 249, in inform_user
>     sipconfig.inform ("Qt directory is %s" %
> pyqtcfg.qt_dir)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sipconfig.py", line
> 179, in __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError, "\"%s\" is not a valid
> configuration value or user option" % name
> AttributeError: "qt_dir" is not a valid configuration
> value or user option
> 
> I have installed sip, version 4.4.5:
> 
> zhvihti:/home/christian/PyKDE-snapshot20060422/PyKDE-snapshot20060422
> # sip -V
> 4.4.5 (4.4.5)
> 
> I also have installed PyQt version 4.0

That's the wrong version of PyQt. PyKDE is for KDE3 which depends on
Qt3, so PyQt3 is the version you need to install for PyKDE to work.

> and when I try
> the example in examples/tools/qtdemo it runs (albeit
> very very slow).

That's "normal", the qtdemo from Qt4 itself runs a little bit faster,
but not that much...

Andreas

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