My first installation of QtCreator was version 2.7.0. I had a serious problem viewing the Welcome help because the text was partly covered by screenshots and there were no examples present. Finally after days of frustration, I decided to try downloading the latest version of Qt 5.1.0, which hadn’t been possible before (and still isn’t) because the U Waterloo mirror failed saying there were bad characters. Finally I went to the qt-project.org page and found the link to alternative download sites. I downloaded the offline installer. After making the .run file executable, I got QtCreator to work, but it wasn’t yet installed (!) as I found out when I killed it. Then I installed qtcreator from the tools/…directory using a prompted sudo … command. Then the computer started unpacking and setting up what seemed like all sorts of irrelevant software like a Gnome monitor and asking questions about my default display manager (I chose lightdm) and the password for SQL etc, and after about two hours of all that activity, finally I could read the documents in the welcome screen. The original QtCreator was quite different, and I saw a .ui file for the Edit of an interface I did. I now have examples! Now the interfaces are described by QML instead of an xml file.
All this was very confusing to a Qt beginner. Can someone keep beginners like me from having such a frustrating start-up? Also, what was happening during the incredibly long installation of qtcreator? Is my installation ok or is it likely to break down if I invest a lot of work into a project?
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