[scribus] Qt 4.6

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 29 July 2010 14:38:08 Steven Dayton wrote:
> Please pardon my ignorance but what is Qt 4.6? Just curious.
>
> Steven
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Culleton 
<john at wexfordpress.com>wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 July 2010 16:38:09 Owen wrote:
> > > > As often happens the race to use the very latest libs leaves users
> > >
> > > like me in
> > >
> > > > the dust. Up to July 7 or so the bleeding edge version of 1.5.0
> > > > compiled
> > > > happily with an earlier Qt. Now I am stuck with the July 7th
> > >
> > > version.
> > >
> > > > The
> > > > latest 1.3.8 also requires 4.6.
> > > > Are there any Linux distros that include/use Qt 4.6?
> > >
> > > Well, the latest Ubuntu does.
> > >
> > > However, why don't you download the source and build it yourself. 
Go
> > > to http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and download Qt libraries 4.6.3 for
> > > Linux/X11(161 MB)
> > >
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > >
> > > will put it in /usr/local
> > >
> > > Read the INSTALL to get it into your PATH
> > >
> > > It takes a couple of hours to build on a fast machine
> >
> > OK did it. Latest 1.5.0 is compiling away. Thanks for your guidance.
> >
> > I hope the extra features on the latest Qt make it all worth while.
> > --
> > John Culleton
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Qt is huge library of stuff that enables creation of graphic programs like 
Scribus. It is a professional level programmer's toolset. I took down my 
programmer nameplate decades ago so I can't describe it further. 
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
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