Ted_Smith
March 12th, 2007, 01:19 AM
Hi
My apologies for being such a dummy....I have searched for the answer but Ubuntu forums are so large now I could not find it (though I am sure it will exist).
I have installed ERIC, the Python IDE. I also want to use it's GUI developer, QT-Designer for which I note there is a button within ERIC to launch it. When I first pressed it it reported "Could not start QT-Designer. Ensure that it is available at /usr/bin/designer". I looked there, and there was no sub-folder called /designer within ../bin.
So I went to Trolltech.com and downloaded the opensource X11 version from here : http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11, unzipped the tar file to ~/Downloads where all my downloads go by default. I then followed the 'INSTALL' file instructions which were as follows :
"To configure the Qt library for your machine type, run the
./configure script in the package directory."
To create the library and compile all the demos, examples, tools,
and tutorials, type:
make
followed by
sudo make install
All this took a while, about half an hour.
However, there is still no '/designer' sub folder in /usr/bin, and when I restart ERIC and click the QT-Designer button it comes up with the same error.
Can anyone help explain what I have done wrong? The INSTALL file did make reference to "If you did not configure Qt using the -prefix-install option, you need to install the library, demos, examples, tools, and tutorials in the appropriate place. To do this, type:
su -c "make install" and enter the root password."
which I did not notice until afterwards. Could this be the problem?
In addition, it mentions about setting environment variables for PATH in the .profile folder. However, I cannot find that. There is a .profile folder for the root user, but not in my user folder?
I realise my problem is due to a lack of undertsnaidng about compliling from source. If anyoen could tell me what I need to do next, I'd be very much obliged.
Thanks
Ted
My apologies for being such a dummy....I have searched for the answer but Ubuntu forums are so large now I could not find it (though I am sure it will exist).
I have installed ERIC, the Python IDE. I also want to use it's GUI developer, QT-Designer for which I note there is a button within ERIC to launch it. When I first pressed it it reported "Could not start QT-Designer. Ensure that it is available at /usr/bin/designer". I looked there, and there was no sub-folder called /designer within ../bin.
So I went to Trolltech.com and downloaded the opensource X11 version from here : http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11, unzipped the tar file to ~/Downloads where all my downloads go by default. I then followed the 'INSTALL' file instructions which were as follows :
"To configure the Qt library for your machine type, run the
./configure script in the package directory."
To create the library and compile all the demos, examples, tools,
and tutorials, type:
make
followed by
sudo make install
All this took a while, about half an hour.
However, there is still no '/designer' sub folder in /usr/bin, and when I restart ERIC and click the QT-Designer button it comes up with the same error.
Can anyone help explain what I have done wrong? The INSTALL file did make reference to "If you did not configure Qt using the -prefix-install option, you need to install the library, demos, examples, tools, and tutorials in the appropriate place. To do this, type:
su -c "make install" and enter the root password."
which I did not notice until afterwards. Could this be the problem?
In addition, it mentions about setting environment variables for PATH in the .profile folder. However, I cannot find that. There is a .profile folder for the root user, but not in my user folder?
I realise my problem is due to a lack of undertsnaidng about compliling from source. If anyoen could tell me what I need to do next, I'd be very much obliged.
Thanks
Ted