Qt? Error with configuring kopete

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:47:34 +0000, John Lagrue wrote:

> I'm trying to build kopete on Fedora 1 (because gaim doesn't work with
> Yahoo and ymessenger refuses to run) but am running into an error with
> configure:
> 
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (headers
> and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
> 
> What is Qt? And where might I find it? yum list shows nothing, so I've
> no idea where it might come from. The kopete web page also tells me
> nothing of this best.

Run

  yum -y install qt-devel

then log out and back in (or source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh, so the $QTDIR
environment variable gets set).

Btw, searching for "qt" at Google, gives you information on what it is.

> I know that it's tied in with KDE somehow, but I run KDE (gnome is too
> fussy, not technical enough and the icons are far too big for my liking)
> 
> Puzzled!
> 
> John