The Slackware Qt package includes full source. If you're looking for the latest official source tar archive, try: ftp://ftp.troll.no/ To build as supplied by Slackware: cd /usr/lib/qt make clean make linux-g++-shared move manpages into /usr/man move libs into /usr/lib chmod 755 bin/qtrename140 make sure the install script from the binary package is in place, the two scripts are in /etc/profile.d, and the sections that will be rebuilt by makepkg (the include links) are edited out.