Want to upgrade my Qt Creator Software

Hi,

Since you are asking a question and haven't reported any sort of issue that could be interpreted as a bug I am converting this bug to a question so it can be dealt with as one.

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What is the output of:

lsb_release -a

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No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

You should be able to get qtcreator 2.1.0 on your Lucid system by using the unofficial PPA https://launchpad.net/~wwu-numerik/+archive/lucid. Click "Read about installing" on that page to see how to enable that PPA. After enabling the PPA, you can run "sudo apt-get install qtcreator" (in a Terminal window) to upgrade qtcreator to the PPA version. This will probably also upgrade qt4-x11, since the newer version of that is probably a dependency of the newer version of qtcreator.

However, there is other software in that PPA at newer versions than in Lucid (like dpkg), which you very likely don't want to upgrade to unless you have to for qtcreator to work. Therefore, I recommend that immediately after enabling the PPA but before updating or installing any packages, you use pinning to make it so that packages that are installed from another software source are not automatically upgraded to the versions from that PPA. You can follow the example at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto#Pinning%20the%20ubuntu-mozilla-daily%20PPA -- just do steps 1 and 2, but with wwu-numerik in place of each instance of ubuntu-mozilla-daily.

As a better long-term solution than using this PPA (since this PPA may or may not remain online and may or may not continue to be updated regularly), you might want to request that qtcreator 2.1.0 be made available in lucid-backports. To do that, first read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports carefully (it explains what that means, and also how to make the request). Please note that, before filing the request, you should search https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports/+bugs to see if the request has already been filed (if it has, then you can subscribe to the bug for the request and use the green "This bug affects..." link near the top of the bug page to indicate that you also want the software to be backported).

Getting, or getting a newer version of, the MeeGo SDK is really a separate topic from upgrading qtcreator, but see http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Docs/1.1/Getting_started_with_the_MeeGo_SDK_for_Linux. If you have any further questions about getting or upgrading the MeeGo SDK, you should post a new question about that. (You can post a link to the question here--if you do that, then I'll make sure to subscribe to the question and, if nobody else gets around to it first, to attend to it and attempt to provide assistance.)