How do I install pdfedit?

As mentioned above, Qt3 is still supported in 12.04 LTS. However both Qt4 and Qt3 are capable of coexisting together on the same machine, therefore I suggest reloading the Qt3 libraries from the archive instead of trying to convert pdfedit to use qt4 libraries.

I've tested the following commands on 12.10, and they work as of this post. If not, you might need to check the archive as see if the version name/link has changed...

On 32 bit systems use this:

Install Qt3 library (libqt3-mt) from 12.04 LTS:

FILE=`mktemp`; wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/libqt3-mt_3.3.8-b-8ubuntu3_i386.deb -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE

Install pdfedit:

FILE=`mktemp`; wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pdfedit/pdfedit_0.4.5-2_i386.deb -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE

For 64 bit versions use the following commands:

Install Qt3 library (libqt3-mt) from 12.04 LTS:

FILE=`mktemp`; wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/libqt3-mt_3.3.8-b-8ubuntu3_amd64.deb -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE

Install pdfedit:

FILE=`mktemp`; wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pdfedit/pdfedit_0.4.5-2_amd64.deb -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE

pdfedit is not available in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. You can find the distributions covered on Launchpad.

Sadly it still relies on Qt3, which has been taken out of Ubuntu with 12.10 Quantal, where only Qt4 remains.

As backwards compatibility is not offered between major versions of Qt, it was removed from the archives.