> OMG, you're right! I've just copied /usr/lib/libqt.so.3.1.1 to > /usr/share/qt3 named as libqt.so and libqt3.so and voila - it all works!
The libqt.so link is provided by package libqt3-dev, which is different from libqt3-mt-dev (which is the Qt development package dragged in with kdelibs4-dev amongst other things). It might be worth making sure you have this package installed (instead of using this manual copying of files). b.