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On the one hand it is sad that I have to answer my own question ( could no body help me for such long time? :_( ) on the other hand it is nice to see that I have learnt something in ROS! ;-)

The direct answer to the question is: clone the repository on your personal ROS workspace

You should have one already created (this personal workspace is also called overlay). If you followed the ROS installation instructions of configuring a new environment, Create a ROS workspace, you should have already one personal workspace where to install the packages.

In my case it is /work/<user>/ros_fuerte_workspace.

And what you should actually do in your workspace is just install rqt as a new package. (There is a general answer about installing a package here ) I will give you the particular installation method using a rosinstall file. Therefore I will provide you as well with the rosinstall file rqt.rosinstall that you must execute in your personal workspace with the following command

(there is an important dot in the middle of the expression!)

rosinstall . rqt.rosinstall

That is the code that I you should write in the file rqt.rosinstall

#installing rqt
#Two stacks needed 'qt_gui_core' and 'rqt'
#see http://wiki.ros.org/rqt/UserGuide/Install/Groovy last Headline "Installing on Fuerte"

- git: {local-name: qt_gui_core, uri:  'https://github.com/ros-visualization/qt_gui_core.git', version: fuerte-devel}

- git: {local-name: rqt, uri: 'https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt.git', version: fuerte-devel}

The # lines are comments, you may leave them out (but I would keep them comments are good ;-))

On executing rosinstall on this file the subfolders rqt and qt_gui_core are created. Now you just gotta build them! (Go inside each of them and run rosmake)

rosmake

READY!! now you can use rqt on fuerte by writing:

rosrun rqt_gui rqt_gui

Hallelujah! :-)