The qt3 installation please

And this "once to render your system unusable" is outright lies. At no point older packages could make a distro unusable. The most which can break is updating the entire distro to a new release or installing certain packages. If an older package perfectly works, why would you waste time rebuilding it?

Are you sure you can rebuild it? Have you actually built software? I've seen cases when older software cannot be rebuilt in a newer distro because GCC has become stricter and you end up having to search the Internet for patches and learn to rebuild source packages and apply patches to a spec file.

Is it really worth it? It's quite possible that qt3 from CentOS 7 will not build under CentOS 8 because they are separated by five years July vs September and have very different versions of GCC, not to mention that glibc and other dependent packages have also been updated and certain libraries are not even in your distro.

Trying to rebuild qt3 might lead to a can of worms which the user will have to solve Show 7 more comments. Bodo Bodo 4, 12 12 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.

The best option is to build it from source. It's not good practice to install packages from another distribution. It's not the best option. It is an option. Tashkinov Yes, it is the best option for the reason that I gave. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

Could it be that the qt3 package you are installing contains just the libraries, but not the header files? Maybe you have to install package qt3-devel or something similar for your linux distribution Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Problem compiling Linux source Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 11 months ago. Active 11 years, 11 months ago. Viewed times. I am trying to compile Linux source but always get qt missing, here is a output [root localhost linux Improve this question. Topics: Active Unanswered. Pages: 1. I tried to find qt3dev in repos but I didn't. So what can I do? Re: make xconfig needs qt We don't provide separate dev packages.

The qt3 package in extra has everything you need. I guess I could go compile qt3 from source with. That worked! Thank you so much!