Install Qt by running the following commands: sed -i "s:cp -f:install:" mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf && bash export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/lib && ./configure -prefix /usr -docdir /usr/share/doc/qt \ -headerdir /usr/include/qt -plugindir /usr/lib/qt/plugins \ -datadir /usr/share/qt -translationdir /usr/share/qt/translations \ -sysconfdir /etc/qt -release -shared -qt-gif -system-zlib \ -no-g++-exceptions -thread -plugin-imgfmt-png -system-libpng && make && find -type f -name Makefile | xargs sed -i "s@-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib@@g" && make install && ln -sf libqt-mt.so /usr/lib/libqt.so && cp -r doc/man /usr/share && cp -r examples /usr/share/doc/qt && exit The build time for Qt is quite long. If you want to save some time and don't want the tutorials and examples, change the first make line above to: make sub-tools