4. Environment variables In order to use Qt, some environment variables needs to be extended. PATH - to locate qmake, moc and other Qt tools This is done like this: In .profile (if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh), add the following lines: PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.4/bin:$PATH export PATH In .login (in case your shell is csh or tcsh), add the following line: setenv PATH /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.4/bin:$PATH If you use a different shell, please modify your environment variables accordingly. For compilers that do not support rpath you must also extended the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.4/lib. On Linux with GCC this step is not needed.