To setup a working telepathy-qt using ubuntu edgy qt4 (version ~svn20060818-0ubuntu4) packages: - install qt4 kdecopy development files $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-debug-dev-kdecopy qt4-dev-tools-kdecopy cmake - grab telepathy-qt from svn $ svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tapioca-voip/trunk/telepathy-qt - cd into telepathy-qt dir $ cd telepathy-qt - grab ubuntu packaging files for telepathy-qt $ bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~telepathy/telepathy-qt/ubuntu - apply the patches on telepathy-qt $ patch -p0 < ubuntu/patches/01-qtdbus-debug.patch $ patch -p0 < ubuntu/patches/02-qtdbus-outdated.patch - cmake . - make - have fun :)