[plug] Help with KDE and Qt1g

Greg Mildenhall greg at networx.net.au
Sat Mar 27 23:45:24 WST 1999


On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Andrew Marsh wrote:
> Trying to install KDE on a system running Debian slink.
> It won't install using dpkg saying that kdelibs2g depends on
> qt1g, which it says is equal to qt-1.42-1.
I assume that what you are seeing is the version requirement which will
say >= 1.42-1 (at least this is what the kdelibs2g package at
ftp.linux.org.au says) meaning you need version 1.42-1 or above of qt1g.
("dpkg -I kdelibs2g_1.1-19990207-2_i386.deb" tells you this.)

If you go to www.debian.org, and follow the "Debian Packages" link, you
can search for "qt1g". I did this and it came up with versions 1.40-1 and
1.42-1. Obviously you will want the latter, so choosing that, and
then clicking on "goto download page", revealed:
"/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.42-2.deb"
as the standard directory for the package on an FTP site. Funnily enough,
it even mentions ftp.au.debian.org as a posible mirror. :)

If you know how it works, the package search function at the debian site
can be invaluable.

> I've downloaded and
> installed qt-1.42-1 from www.troll.no without a hitch, checked
> and rechecked the environment variables and even tried copying
> all the qt library files into /usr/X11R6/lib.  To no avail.
> As far as I can see, qt-1.42-1 is only available as a tar file, not
> as as a deb package.  I assume that simply installing it will not
> update the dpkg dependancy database.  How can I do this if
> all you can get is a tar archive?
You can actually diddle with Debian's package database and tell it you
have installed packages you haven't, but whenever possible you should try
to do things The Right Way(tm) and use the standard packages.
If a package depends on another one, then you can be fairly sure the other
package exists, even if you have to do a search for it.

> It says on the Qt web site that it is included in the Debian
> distribution, but it doesn't seem to appear in the dselect list or
> anywhere on the slink cd that I can see.  Scanning the Packages
> file shows up only libqtheads a couple of times but that's it.
Well, they are sort of right. There are official debian packages, but
they cannot be distributed on the CD because they are non-free.
The next version of Qt will be free and will be on the Debian CDs, but
unfortunately this does not affect the status of KDE, which is still not
legally distributable.

> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
You probably either didn't look in unstable or didn't look in non-free.
But happily, you've learnt about the search page, so it's ended well.

-Greg



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