To install, as root, type:

rpm -ivh http://software.freivald.com/centos/software.freivald.com-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum update fontconfig fontconfig-devel qt4 qt4-devel qt4-doc qt4-postgresql qt4-odbc qt4-sqlite qt-creator

Also, I’ve updated the qt-creator package to 1.3.1-1.  The issue with the package was that on the 64-bit environment, qt-creator continues to look into /usr/lib/qtcreator for it’s plugins instead of /usr/lib64/qtcreator.  I added a link from /usr/lib/qtcreator to /usr/lib64/qtcreator in the x86_64 arch build.  This means that you should not install the 32-bit version and the 64 bit version on the same machine – but I’m not sure that was ever a good idea in the first place.

Please post here if you have any issues with the Qt 4.6.3 build or the qtcreator 1.3.1-1.

I’ve also posted the public key that I use to sign the packages here.  To use it, as root, type:

rpm --import http://software.freivald.com/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-software.freivald.com

NOTE: If you use yum-priorities you will need to set this repository to the same level as ‘core’ for these to install properly.  You’ll know if you have a priorities issue because ‘yum install qt-creator’ will scream at you that you are missing libaries.  These libraries come in the version that I compile but not in the Centos core distribution and if the priorities are wrong it will pull those packages from core.

Cheers.

UPDATE: Nokia released Qt 4.6.0 and qt-creator 1.3.0 today.  The new RPMs are compiled and stored in the repository.  ‘yum update’ should be sufficient to grab the new ones.  I also changed the directory to reflect Centos 5.4 instead of 5.3.  Let me know of any issues.

–JATF

Want to get the Qt SDK working on Centos 5.3?

Quick instructions:

rpm -ivh http://software.freivald.com/centos/software.freivald.com-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

yum update fontconfig fontconfig-devel qt4 qt4-devel qt4-doc qt4-postgresql qt4-odbc qt4-sqlite qt-creator

Verify that the versions are coming from software.freivald.com and install.

Longer story:

All of the RPM’s described in this post are in a yum repository that you can access by installing this RPM.  It includes both x86_64 and i386 repositories that are automatically selected based on your architecture.

The first problem: the FcFreeTypeQueryFace problem that is very well described here, with a manual compile and upgrade way around it.  I thought I would go one step further and create an RPM.  Here is what I did:

I started with this source file from fontconfig.org and this SRPM from redhat.com, modified the spec file from the SRPM because of a changed config file location, and created these RPM files for you to install.

The second problem:  the QtSDK is built against several other libraries that are newer than provided with CentOS 5.3.  Rather than update those libraries, I’ve opted to compile RPMs for qt4 and qt-creator for CentOS 5.3. There are all new packages for them in the repository. They upgrade the shipped version (4.2.1) to the new version. They should be binary compatible, since theoretically Qt only breaks binary backwards compatibility on a major revision number change, but I don’t have any real way to test this. Feel free to post any problems you encounter.

The third problem: qt-creator isn’t included with the qt4 source.  I created it as its own package.  ‘yum install qt-creator’ to install it by itself.

Hopefully after installing the repository package, a

yum update

and everything should ‘just work’.

Oh, and feel free to use the ‘joewidgets’ and ‘joewidgets-devel’ packages.  They include some widgets that I use for other projects, primarily a back-port of the KLed widget to QLed that removed KDE dependancies, and a multi-state button with configurable colors for each state.  The ‘devel’ package includes designer plugins that also work in qt-creator.  Source for those are published in the srpms directory.

–JATF