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    Please Help: Qt 4.8.5 Configure Getting Stuck

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      komjongshawn last edited by

      Hello,

      I need to intsall Qt 4.8.5 on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine in order to use it to compile another program. I have been struggling with this program now for a frustrating amount of time trying to get all of the dependencies (i.e. Xrender, Xcursor, etc.) installed to the point where it is no longer complaining about them and now it is stalling when I run configure.

      I first installed the Qt 4.8.5 and everything appeared to work all right (it turns out the warning messages were so buried in the output that I overlooked them), but then when I tried to compile my program it quit with an error saying that QWebKit wasn't installed, which I have since figured out is because Xrender, Xcursor, and Xrandr were not installed.

      Now when I run ./configure it is getting a fair amount of the way in and then reaching the following:

      Reading %PATH%/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5/demos/spectrum/app/app.pro
      INPUT FILE NAME

      and waiting for me to input some file name. Problem is, I have no idea what it is looking for and anything that I put in just results in the following error, where configure is apparently stalling:

      **** WARN: specified file does not exist ****


      **** WARN: halting program in SEIOPEN ****
      **** ...closing down files ****
      cat: .projects.all.*: No such file or directory

      I'm wondering if this is either a result of maybe not being uninstalled cleanly before reinstalling it, or if there is some file that I need to specify that I am just completely overlooking.

      Any help will be greatly appreciated!

      Thanks.

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      • SGaist
        SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

        Hi and welcome to devnet,

        Did you restart your configuration from a clean source ?

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        Please read the Qt Code of Conduct - https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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          komjongshawn @SGaist last edited by

          @SGaist Thank you for responding.

          Yes, I did restart it from a clean source. I've tried running make confclean and just plain recopying the source and both do the same thing.

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          • SGaist
            SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

            What options did you give to configure ?

            Interested in AI ? www.idiap.ch
            Please read the Qt Code of Conduct - https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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              komjongshawn @SGaist last edited by

              @SGaist None.

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              • JKSH
                JKSH Moderators last edited by

                Hi @komjongshawn,

                May I suggest installing Qt 4.8.5 from the Ubuntu repository? (e.g. apt-get or Ubuntu Software Center)

                Get the "libqt4-dev" package. That pulls in all the required dependencies for build Qt 4 applications.

                If a module is left out for some reason, just search for packages that start with "libqt4-".

                Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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                  komjongshawn @JKSH last edited by

                  @JKSH

                  Thanks. I installed libqt4-webkit and that was enough to eliminate the errors related to Qt. I'm getting another error when I actually try to compile my program, but it looks like that's a result of bad programming by the author, so not too much that can be done there other than trying to sort out his code.

                  Thanks for your help.

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