Installation
From Dc-qt
There are two ways to install dc-qt, either by compiling from source or by installing the binary package for your platform.
Currently, we provide binary packages for Mac OS X (ppc), Debian/Ubuntu (i386) and Fedora Core 5 (amd64). We also provide general binary packages for linux (i386 and amd64). We happily accept any contributions that could extend this mediocre list :)
Source and binary packages can be downloaded from The dc-qt sourceforge files page
Installing from source
Download the source tarball using the above link. You need some libraries and headers: Qt 4.1 and Boost. Install them using your package manager or whatever. Beware that Qt 4 may not be available pre-built for your distribution, this is the case for Fedora. In that case, you must download the open source version from Trolltech. Building and installing Qt 4 is easy, just unpack, configure and make install as root. After that, you must put Qt4's bin directory in your PATH. For example, export PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.2/bin:$PATH.
Boost is more often available in the package database of various Linux distributions. You'll need the "dev" versions of the packages in order to get the required header files. If not it can be found here.
The file README contains instructions for compiling dc-qt itself.
Installing a binary
For the RPM, just double click on it or do yum install <filename> or rpm -i <filename>.
For the DEB, do a dpkg -i <filename>, or use a graphical installation tool.
The general linux binaries does not have any installation scripts yet. Just unpack and run, or copy the files to your favourite bin/ directory.
For the Mac package just copy the DcQt bundle to a location you prefer. We currently only provide ppc binaries but we plan on providing a universal binary in the near future. You dont need any other dependencies like boost or Qt installed.
The binaries are all statically linked against Qt4, so you dont need to install it. Boost on the other hand is dynamically linked, so you need to install it if you are using the general binaries.
Post installation instructions
From here on, you may proceed to Getting Started for some information about running the application.
