The releases of this section are outdated and will not be supported. The relating packages may work, but we encourage you to install a recent KDE release.

Installing of the QT 2 binary packages could be done by hand or by the setup installer. For downloading by hand you find some hints in this page, while downloading by setup installer is described in the Setup installation page.

How to perform a manual installation

Before you are going to start installing QT 2 make sure you have meet the Requirements.

1. Download the following files to a local dir:

   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/qt-2.3.1-b2.tar.bz2

2. unpack the binary archive into the cygwin root. This will install the qt release into /usr/local/lib/qt2

   cd /
   tar -xjf qt-2.3.1-b2.tar.bz2
   

3. add the environment settings to /etc/profile.d/qt2.sh

   cat >/etc/profile.d/qt2.sh
   export QTDIR=/usr/local/lib/qt2
   export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
   export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$QTDIR/doc/man
   

   Press ENTER & CTRL-D to stop the cat command.
4. reread profile

   . /etc/profile
   

Now you are ready to use qt2. Please read the Using QT section how to go on.