Hello, I've been on the Fedora core list for a couple of months now and FWIW, I've yet to see any remarks related to Scribus. Now, this is not a bad thing. It means that the documentation for Scribus is good and that it is compiling/playing well in the distro.
The problem(s) Greg refers to is not indigenous to all installations (AFAIK). Regards Marvin Dickens Alpharetta, Georgia On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:03 -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote: > For those of you having varying degrees of consternation compiling > Scribus with their distros, I just compiled Scribus without any trouble > with FC3 -- I know Paul has been using FC3 since its test versions. > So far, Fedora has been pretty good at keeping the various parts that > Scribus needs up to date. If it's an initial install, you will want to > custom choose components to get all the required rpms for Scribus (such > as qt-devel). > > Without a doubt you would want to scan fedora-list to make sure there > aren't any showstoppers for your hardware. > You can avoid a common FC3 headache by installing it with the option > 'ide=nodma' if you run into mediacheck problems; not only does this bug > (it's apparently a 2.6 kernel bug) cause a mediacheck failure for some > of the disks, it can also cause the install to crash in the middle. > > Greg Pittman > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
