There are some small issues with installing Qt on centos. Proceed as follows: 1. Download and install qt as usual: wget http://download.qt.nokia.com/qtsdk/qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2009.03.1.bin chmod u+x qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2009.03.bin ./qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2009.03.bin 2. Do the following changes in order to install required fontconfig: cd /usr/src/ wget http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz tar -zxf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz cd fontconfig-2.4.2 ./configure –prefix=/opt/fontconfig-2.4.2 make make install # backup old library [...]