qpainter "drawText() problem

[impeteperry]

Thanks for all your help. I know I've been a pest.

i tried to find an RPM download. but gave up. (I really didn't spend too much time as I had so much trouble with RPM packages when I was using RH/Fedora before I switched to Ubuntu/Bubuntu.)

I did, however install a debian version of Qt4. and had even more problems.

I went back to my original thought and installed all the "gcc" packages that seemed reasonable.

Re-installed Qt4 from the downloaded source code.

Restarted my computer. re-compiled my program. NOW IT RUNS!!!

I went back to the installed Qt examples in /usr/local/Trolltech/examples and tried "qmake examples.pro" and got

pete@myComputer:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.2.3/examples$ qmake examples.pro
Failure to open file: /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.2.3/examples/Makefile
Unable to generate makefile for: examples.pro
pete@myComputer:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.2.3/examples$

so now i want to fix that, but it is not criticca at this point.

Thanks again

I tried the examples in the Trolltech documentation . they all compiled and ran OK.