Originally Posted by fcrochik

IMPORTANT: Don't try this unless you know why you want to upgrade the Qt packages shipped with your n900 and MAKE SURE to read ALL the previous posts on this thread for the unintended side effects. Installing these packages DOES NOT mean that all the packages that depend on Qt packages will work. In fact, I would assume otherwise.


I decided to share this because I think is a little safer than adding the SDK catalog (not easier).

There is another way to get the 4.6.2 Qt packages - you can download them from http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fre...ree/q/qt4-x11/ and install them manually.

The packages are:
libqt4-core_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-dbus_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-gui_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-maemo5_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-multimedia_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-network_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-opengl_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-phonon_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-script_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-sql-sqlite_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-sql_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-svg_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-translations_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-webkit_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-xml_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb
libqt4-xmlpatterns_4.6.2~git20100310-0maemo1+0m5_armel.deb


Because you may want to install all of them I created a small script.

A little guide:
1. Save the two attached files to a NEW folder on your n900
2. open the terminal as the root user (if you don't know how, look around but it probably means that you should not try this... )
3. go to the directory where you saved the files.
4. if you don't have wget installed, install it:

Code:

apt-get install wget

5. run the script:

Code:

sh qt4-install.txt

6. you may want to remove "mp-fremantle-generic-pr" to avoid broken dependencies (again read first post on this thread)

The script(qt4-install.txt) is very simple and reads the list of files to download and install from the second file(qt4-packages.txt):

Code:

#!/bin/sh
while read line; do
    echo 'downloading: '$line
           wget http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/q/qt4-x11/$line 
    dpkg -i $line
done < qt4-packages.txt

Last but not least: I BELIEVE developers should have (and had) their applications linked with the qt4-maemo (experimental) packages until PR 1.2 is out. It is just easier for users to install them and does not require hacks. The current policy to block qt packages from moving to testing sends a different message. A message that the right way of doing is using the "stock" packages that don't exist on the device. If you do so then you can't run the application on the device until PR 1.2 is out or you have to try some hack like this.

Originally Posted by ceroberts75

works well so far. was able to reinstall my healthcheck and update the cpufrequi.

question....there was a folder for the maemo5 folder for my current version now in the update. is this because it is not recognizing my curreng qt files and wants me to install the older ones?

Originally Posted by saxen

that's ironic! i make it works this morning, and few minutes later i read about pr 1.2 release :O

btw, that's good enough, i've to wait till tomorrow to get update, so usefull one -day-hack =P

Originally Posted by saxen

now that pr 1.2 is out we have to move faster with qt development and hope to see more cool and stylish apps