> My enthusiasm has been dampened slightly having read the "Installation - > Getting Started" section of Peter Linnell's online handbook and realising, > that, as a Windows-based user, getting Scribus up and running on my system > is not simply a matter of acquiring a Linux Live CD, downloading a version > of Scribus, and then relying on a Wizard to install - or could I expect to > find the various requirements listed by Peter (Qt, Freetype, Ghostscript > etc) bundled with a Live CD?
If you are particularly interested in running Scribus from a Live CD (and not installing Linux on your computer permanently), there are many Live CDs which include Scribus - a search for 'scribus "live cd"' on Google turned up several. Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.serve-you.net/), which endeavours to keep track of Linux distros, shows you all the packages that a particular distribution has, so you can check. So you can try out Scribus without necessarily going all the way straight away. I can't really say which of the available Live CDs is best for a new linux user, not having really looked at any of them. I suggest you try out a couple, if you can get hold of them. I can also say that installing Scribus on Fedora Core 3 is completely painless, since an RPM is available from one of the large third-party repositories (DAG, I think). So you can either download the RPM and install it separately, or install it with a package management tool like yum or apt-rpm if you have one set up. (In my case, it was as easy as typing "yum install scribus" :) ). -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! --Registered Linux User #334504--
