QtiPlot works best with the 4.2.3 version of the Qt library
You must use the Qwt 5.0.2 library.
The 0.2.7 version of the QwtPlot3D library is used to create the 3D plots. The library and the include files must be available.
The version of the muParser library used by QtiPlot is 1.28.
The last version of the liborigin allows to read OriginLab OPJ project files. It is included in QtiPlot ("3rdparty/liborigin" folder), so you don't need to download and install it.
In order to build QtiPlot you also need the GSL library.
For the compression of project files QtiPlot also uses the zlib library.
Finally, if you want Python scripting support, you will also need to download and install: Python 2.5, SIP, and PyQt v4. All three of them are included in many Linux distributions.
Download the qtiplot archive (.tar.bz2 or .zip file) and decompress it. Then open a terminal (console) window and go to the main folder of the decompressed archive (which should be named qtiplot-0.9.0). You must be sure that QtiPlot is able to find the third party libraries it depends on. You have to go to the qtiplot directory and open the file qtiplot.pro. As an example, the folowing line describes the path to the QwtPlot3D library header files which should be available for the compilation:
unix:INCLUDEPATH += ../3rdparty/qwtplot3d/include/
it should point to the correct directory. Once this is done, go back to the main directory qtiplot-0.9.0 and type:
qmake qtiplot.pro make
to install QtiPlot, you must login as root and type:
make install
You can then logout from root and launch the application:
qtiplot