[ale] spoiled by package management

[Sergio Chaves]

Have you tried to create a symlink with the "downgraded version" name pointing 
to the actual version( ln -s qt-3.3.6-23.el5  qt-3.2.6-23.el5 )?
That usually works for me.

Sergio

On Monday 07 March 2011 15:44:30 Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> > John Scott wrote:
> >> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> >>> So, I'm trying to build kiosktool from source.  I get the following
> >>> error:
> >>> 
> >>> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (headers and
> >>> libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
> >>> 
> >>> Confused as I have:
> >>> 
> >>> qt-3.3.6-23.el5
> >>> qt-devel-3.3.6-23.el5
> >> 
> >> Maybe the dependencies for kiosktool are written wrong (with a capital Q
> >> when the packages are clearly lower q).
> > 
> > I don't think that is the issue as I have it installed on another system
> > and the packages are all lower case as well.
> > 
> >> -John
> 
> The issue is that the programmers coded it and don't necessarily look
> for >= but rather =. Maybe on purpose or not, maybe the library has not
> been added to the ld library path. Run strace and it will show if it
> looks in the correct directory path.
> 
> rcr
> 
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