On Thursday 18 April 2002 23:59, Roland Hughes wrote:
> When I try to do the "make" it say's there is no such file or
> directory. Below is the output of the "./configure". I am not sure
> as to what the problem is. My astronomy club wants me to do the
> news letter and I thought this would be good.
>

> checking for a C-Compiler...
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for xlc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

These lines seem to indicate your problem - you have no C compiler. 
Install gcc.  Scribus has quite a few dependencies you may need to 
supply, especially if you're not running the latest Mandrake (libpng3 
was the one which screwed me - my system didn't like having libpng2 
and libpng3 installed at the same time, though I can't see why this 
should be a problem).

For the brief period I had Scribus on my machine I found it 
impressive, though still rather alpha-ish.  It has the potential to 
become an Open Source alternative to publishing software like Quark 
or PageMaker, but not just yet, I think.  

What software you use will depend on the kind of layout you want for 
your newletter, and any requirements your printers may have.  KWord 
might even do the job, or LyX, if you want a fairly plain, 
academic-style newsletter (I've known someone even do a fanzine in 
LyX, but that requires a good knowledge of LaTeX, so probably isn't 
worth the effort ).

Sir Robin

-- 
"Bravo Epictetus!" - Epictetus

Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin

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