qmake: command not found after apparently flawless Qt install

emiphiste · 12-07-2006, 03:48 PM

I've just recently installed qt-3.3 in order to run qmake on the raconfig2500.pro file for the rt2500 driver (obtained from serialmonkey), but even though the ./configure, make and make install steps appeared to run flawlessly for Qt, I'm still getting this message:

Code:

qmake -o Makefile raconfig2500.pro
bash: qmake: command not found

Thinking it might be looking for qmake in the wrong place, I put a symlink from /usr/home/<my username>/qt/qmake/qmake to /usr/bin/qmake. Nope. Still can't find the qmake command.

I have a symlink from /usr/home/<my username>/qt to /usr/local/qt.

I have the following established in .profile:

Code:

QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Is there something I need to edit or change so the qmake command will be recognised? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

weibullguy · 12-08-2006, 09:35 AM

Does this work?

Code:

/usr/home/<my username>/qt/qmake/qmake/qmake -o Makefile raconfig2500.pro

bathory · 12-08-2006, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Thinking it might be looking for qmake in the wrong place, I put a symlink from /usr/home/<my username>/qt/qmake/qmake to /usr/bin/qmake. Nope. Still can't find the qmake command.

The correct shoule be

Code:

ln -s /usr/home/<my username>/qt/bin/qmake to /usr/bin/qmake

if you've installed qt in your homedir.
To see if qmake is in your PATH, run:

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which qmake

To see your PATH, run:

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echo $PATH

emiphiste · 12-08-2006, 03:07 PM

Thanks for the responses.

Arow - I tried running the directory as the command itself, and that didn't work. Thank you, though.

Bathory - Here are the results of your suggestion:

Code:

[root@localhost emiphiste]# rm -rf /usr/bin/qmake
[root@localhost emiphiste]# ln -s /usr/home/emiphiste/qt/bin/qmake usr/bin/qmake
ln: creating symbolic link `usr/bin/qmake' to `/usr/home/emiphiste/qt/bin/qmake': No such file or directory
[root@localhost emiphiste]# which qmake
/usr/bin/
which: no qmake in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/emiphiste/bin)
[root@localhost emiphiste]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/emiphiste/bin

The thing is, I can't understand what it's telling me.

I apologise. If someone could clarify, that would be wonderful.

bathory · 12-11-2006, 02:24 AM

Quote:

ln: creating symbolic link `usr/bin/qmake' to `/usr/home/emiphiste/qt/bin/qmake': No such file or directory

What is telling you, is that there is no such file, or directory, which means that you didn't install qt in you homedir. Also the output of the which commands means that there is no qmake in your PATH. That's why you cannot
How did you installed qt? Did you compiled it from source, or you used a package from your distro?

emiphiste · 12-11-2006, 06:14 PM

I compiled it from source, using the instructions within the install file. Kinda sad that I can mess something up even with explicitly written instructions

I'm trying to get it to work on Fedora 5, so I did try downloading the rpm first (I have to download it onto a flash drive and move between a computer that has internet and my own - I'm so used to using yum that it hurts), but that's what initially yielded the qmake: command not found. I thought doing it from source might give me a little more luck.

Guess it's back to the drawing board for me. :P

livewire98801 · 12-13-2006, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by emiphiste

I compiled it from source, using the instructions within the install file. Kinda sad that I can mess something up even with explicitly written instructions

I'm trying to get it to work on Fedora 5, so I did try downloading the rpm first (I have to download it onto a flash drive and move between a computer that has internet and my own - I'm so used to using yum that it hurts), but that's what initially yielded the qmake: command not found. I thought doing it from source might give me a little more luck.

Guess it's back to the drawing board for me. :P

I shoulda never gotten you started on Linux, shoulda installed WinXP on that sad little box

Which didn't seem to be able to find qmake, did you run a 'locate' and see if there are any references to it at all? Maybe you had deeper problems installing than you thought. . .

For the record, my (FC5) server has qt but doesn't have qmake:

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[livewire@lwserver ~]$ locate qmake
[livewire@lwserver ~]$ rpm -qa | grep qt
qt-3.3.7-0.1.fc5

I found this site when I did a google for qmake:
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/qmake-manual-2.html
Which indicates to me that you have to compile it from source.

This much you knew. My theory is that you need to remove the RPM _first_ then build qt.

Use "rpm -e --nodeps qt" if it gives you any grief.

Let me know how this goes, I don't want to break my server if it doesn't work ;-)