The following problems are known: 1.) If you used a previous version of KDevelop consider setting either $KDEHOME or cleaning your kde home from references to kdevelop and kdev 2.) there is no QMAKESPEC for the Cxxx hardware Resolution: Currently use the SL MAKESPEC 3.) setting KDEDIR can be wrong. Use the diff supplied in the same directory and patch startup_kdevelop 4.) Running the application might not work You can set the Environment Variables in the Project Options You would need to set OPIE and QTDIR. Otherwise you could use the embedded konsole of kdevelop "source /opt/OpieSdk/host_source" 5.) KDevelop tries to use gmake. If it is not available on your system create a symlink. From make to gmake Problems with debian SID: You need to have libpcre, libdb-3 and libpng3, libqt3, qt3-embedded-dev-tools installed on your system apt-get install libpcre3-dev libdb3-dev libpng3-dev libqt3-mt-dev \ qt3-dev-tools-embedded 1.) linking problems: You may need to issue the following commands from within /usr/lib ln -s libpcreposix.so libpcreposix.so.0 ln -s libpcre.so libpcre.so.0 ln -s libdb-3.2.so libdb-3.3.so