Installing of the QT 3 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 3 make sure you have meet the Requirements.

1. Download the qt 3.2.3 binary package to a local dir
2. unpack the binary archive into the cygwin root. This will install the qt release into /opt/qt/3.2

   tar -C / -xjf qt-3.2.3.tar.bz2
   
   

3. reread profile

   . /etc/profile
   

Now you are ready to use qt3. Please read the Using QT section how to go on.