opie-lupdate - Opie lupdate is an specialised version of Qt3.1 lupdate. You do not need TRANSLATIONS in your .pro anymore. Opie lupdate reads the language list from $OPIEDIR/i18n and then generates the .ts files. Together with the build system one make opie-lupdate on toplevel or inside the buildsystem is enough to update translations. To add new translations simply mkdir $OPIEDIR/i18n/new_lang; make opie-lupdate opie-lrelease - Also deprecates the TRANSLATIONS attribute inside the .pro files to compile both you need Qt3.1, qmake point your QMAKESPEC to "" and run qmake -o Makefile the_profile.pro make to compile