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To use the <trademark>Qt</trademark><application>Creator</application> without installing the <abbrev>SDK</abbrev>, one must first install the <trademark>Qt</trademark> components from the repository so that the <trademark>Qt</trademark> libraries, qmake, moc, debugger, and other utilities will be available to be automatically located by <trademark>Qt</trademark><application>Creator</application> when it is installed. Installing the following necessary packages in the order given will establish a proper <trademark>Qt</trademark><application>Creator</application> development environment: <placeholder-1/>

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Several other packages might be necessary depending on your needs. For example, if you want to create database applications, then <filename>libqt4-sql-mysql</filename>, <filename>libqt4-sql-psql</filename>, and <filename>libqt4-sql-sqlite</filename> will allow you to connect to a <application>PostgreSQL</application>, <trademark>MySQL</trademark> or <trademark>SQLite3</trademark> database, respectively. Also consider <filename>libqt4-dbg</filename>, <filename>libqt4-network</filename>, <filename>libqt4-script</filename>, <filename>libqt4-xml</filename>, <filename>python-qt4</filename> (<trademark>Python</trademark> bindings), <filename>qt4-demos</filename> and <filename>libqt4-webkit</filename>.

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One can also create <trademark>Qt</trademark> applications using just <trademark>Qt</trademark><application>Designer</application>, the <application>Assistant</application>, and the <application>Linguist</application>, by installing all of the 6 necessary packages listed above except for <filename>qtcreator</filename>, which can be replaced using <application>Kate</application> or your favorite text editor. In this case one runs the <trademark>Qt</trademark>-<application>Designer</application> to create the graphical user interfaces independent of the text editor used.

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Qt

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Designer

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The <application>Designer</application> is the graphical user interface (<acronym>GUI</acronym>) designing tool for graphical applications written using the <trademark>Qt</trademark> toolkit. <trademark>Qt</trademark> provides the building blocks &mdash; a broad set of customizable widgets, graphics canvas, style engine, and more that you need to build modern user interfaces. You can incorporate 3D graphics, multimedia audio or video, visual effects, and animations into your projects. <trademark>Qt</trademark>'s integration with the <trademark>WebKit</trademark> web rendering engine means that one can quickly incorporate content and services from the web into their native application, and can use the web environment to deliver their services and functionality.

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Linguist

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The <application>Linguist</application> is <trademark>Qt</trademark>'s i18n tool (the word "internationalization" has 18 letters between its first and last letter). It allows for easy creation of translation files which are used with the translate (tr()) function to allow the text displayed by an application to be localized to the language of the user.

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Assistant

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The <application>Assistant</application> is <trademark>Qt</trademark>'s Application Programming Interface (<abbrev>API</abbrev>) with world class documentation for <trademark>Qt</trademark>. It deals with more than just <trademark>Qt</trademark>'s tools and classes. The <abbrev>API</abbrev> for any release of <trademark>Qt</trademark>, its tools and addons can be found <ulink url="http://doc.qt.nokia.com/">here</ulink>. It includes the following: Class index, Function index, Modules, Namespaces, Global Declarations, and the elements of the new declarative tool <trademark>QML</trademark>.