How to install QtRuby + Qt4 on Ubuntu 14?

Question

I wish to program in ruby in QtCreator. If I'm right, I need to install QtRuby + Qt4, but with no success on Ubuntu 14. How to do? Thanks!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '16 at 17:14

Follow these steps to install Qtruby+Qt4

run following command in terminal

sudo aptitude install libqt4-core libqt4-dev

version=2.1.0
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71843/qt4-qtruby-${version}.tar.gz

Extract qtruby

tar -xvzf qt4-qtruby-${version}.tar.gz
cd qt4-qtruby-${version}

qtruby installer uses the location of the Ruby binary it is started with

rvm use 1.8.7
cmake .
make

Now install,

sudo make install

ubuntu doesn't look here by default, but the qtruby install puts its libraries here

sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib

We had to run make install with root because it writes to /usr/local/lib, but it also writes to $MY_RUBY_HOME.

we don't want root-owned files floating around in there

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $MY_RUBY_HOME

NOTE - For more information please have a look at rvm documentation

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