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qt-x11-free package

  1. Bug #145709
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 145709

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote : Re: 7.10: Qt3 ~/.qt owner root and missing qtrc result result in ugly appearance

I found the problem!

There's two reasons why this problem happens :

#1 : The /etc/qt3 folder has very low permissions which refuses anyone else than root to access or list the files

In Gutsy : drwxr----- 2 root root
In Feisty : drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

#2 : The config file /etc/qt3/qtrc doesn't exist.

It isn't created during the installation process of the libqt3-mt package. for a unknown reason, the /etc entry has been removed from the debian/libqt3-mt.install file in the source package. Re-building the source package after adding /etc gives a binary .deb which fix the problem.

I attached a Debdiff which fixes this problem.