I have Scribus 1.4.3, the latest stable version, installed on my old Xubuntu 12.04 computer. It was installed by adding a PPA repository to the sources list.
On my new Xubuntu 13.10 computer the latest version that appears in Synaptic is 1.4.2, a version that is now over a year old. I added the same PPA repository to the new computer, but Synaptic still lists just 1.4.2. Yet Synaptic on the old computer with the same PPA repository lists 1.4.3. I have no explanation for this. I tried to compile from source at least a dozen times so far, but it always fails. I am unable to understand the error messages, so I can't figure out how to fix what went wrong. I do know that there at least a dozen dependencies that are not automatically included in Ubuntu, but I have installed all that I know about. I have asked on the Scribus listserv and have received numerous suggestions, but the compile still fails. I have also searched for a precompiled package for 1.4.3, but I cannot find it anywhere on the net. That is, there are .exe packages for Windows, but I can't find a .deb or .rpm. Does anyone know if there is a distro that has a precompiled package for 1.4.3 in its repos? Could I sneak in late at night when the lights are out and purloin the package? The development version, 1.5, has some cool new features that I have been begging for, but I know it requires a long list of qt5 dependencies, most of which are not in the Ubuntu repos, even though qt5 was released over a year ago. There are no precompiled packages, so my only choice would be to compile from source, and the prospects of accomplishing that don't look good. If I thought I had a chance of getting it installed I might try it. Any suggestions are welcome. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
