Re: question about Qt package needed

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0500, Haines Brown said
> > First a general question. Is there some way to determine, without prior
> > knowledge, what packages need to be downloaded? None of the packages
> > on the debian site said anything like, "general Qt" support, or the
> 
> For a library "foo", the actual library is usually in "libfoo", perhaps
> with a number appended.
> 
> > "headers and libraries needed by Qt."
> 
> Generally libfoo-dev, sometimes with a number after the foo.
> 
> > The specific question: whch Qt packages in fact do I need to get Qt
> > headers and libraries? =20
> 
> libqt3-mt-dev for the headers, which will pull in libqt3c102 which
> contains the actual library.  The "-mt" is for "multi-threaded" and
> is a particular feature of that version of the library.  The "c102"
> comes =66rom the C++ ABI transition
> (http://people.debian.org/~rmurray/c++transition.html) but will
> eventually dissappear.

Thank you for the thorough reply to my naive question.

Haines