Peter Chubb wrote:

> Running apt-get build-dep will still help, as it installs all the
> prerequisites for building the package that already exists.

I'd definitely agree with Peter here.

> QT libraries are a bit funny, though, and there may be some
> incompatibilities there.  You usually have to specify a path to
> libqt-mt.so.3 and the header files (assuming that you need the
> multi-threaded verion of QT)

There is also a possibility that the new version of the source code
you're trying to compile requires a version of Qt that has not been
packaged yet.

In that case you are up the creek without a paddle.

Erik
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