[Scribus] Can anybody explain KDE/qt3 situation?

[David Goodenough]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 21:02, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Sunday 16 October 2005 21:57, Benjamin Green wrote:
> > > Ok, there's some kind of issue with libqt3--I've seen references to
> > > this. I
> > > probably could get around this by compiling. However, in my experience,
> > > when
> > > I try doing these REALLY REALLY EASY compile operations, it often means
> > > hours of hair-tearing. Isn't there ANY binary deb package that works
> > > with KDE 3.3.2 or higher?
> > >
> > > Is there an article on the Wiki that can explain what's going on in
> > > terrms
> > > that an idiot can understand? (I'm definitely not a newbie to
> > > Linux--just an
> > > idiot)
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > KDE, qt and the whole kaboodle (including kaboodle itself) have been
> > updated since the last mepis release. When you ask for scribus, things
> > need to be removed to satisfy it's dependancies. You will be able to
> > re-install all of KDE (3.4.2) and Koffice (1.3.5) after that, if you use
> > the debain sid at least, but it might not all be plain sailing anyway,
> > things have changed a lot since the last mepis release. I can't vouch for
> > the state of testing. You might be able to get less removals by
> > specifieing packages to also install, e.g. 'apt-get install scribus kde'.
> > That last release of MEPIS was from before the current release of debian
> > stable (that is when sarge was testing and etch was just a twinkle), so
> > things have moved on a lot since then.
>
> Why is this though? Scribus DOES NOT depend on KDE!
Its because of the gcc 4.0 ABI transition, which means that the Qt libraries
have changed their names.  That ties in to KDE.

David
>
> Craig