After ripping my hair out trying to install qjoypad, I finally succeeded, so I figured I would share how I did it.

First, I downloaded the .rpm from http://qjoypad.sourceforge.net/

NOTE: the .deb doesn't work, because it suffers from the wretched libqt3-mt dependency hell. The source wouldn't compile for me, first throwing qmake errors and then (after a simple symlink) complaining about a type declaration in layout.h.

Then, I converted it with alien:

fakeroot alien qjoypad-3.4-1.i586.rpm

I installed using dpkg:

sudo dpkg -i qjoypad_3.4-2_i386.deb

I then linked the icons so they actually worked:

cd /usr/local/share/pixmaps/qjoypad/
sudo ln -s gamepad2-24x24.png icon24.png
sudo ln -s gamepad2-64x64.png icon64.png

NOTE: try `eog /usr/local/share/pixmaps/qjoypad/ &` first if you want a choice of icons!

Finally, I hope someone fixes this stupid libqt3-mt dependency crap.

Regards,
td