Hi, I have a related question on that topic.
Wonder why my Fink install of Scribus gives me an August 04 build and not the most recent? When I install from binaries, I get "Sorry, there is no upgrade to install. You're running the most current version". Thanks in advance for any advice on this! Louis ? (At) 10h04 +0100 3/01/05, Martin Costabel ?crivait (wrote) : >Paraplegic Racehorse wrote: >[] >>>>On your level of newbie-ness :-) I would suggest that you type >>>> >>>> open-x11 scribus >>>> >>>Nope. I tried that and it doesn't work so that's bad advice for him. >>> >>Correct. One way is to start Apple X11 (look in >>/Applications/Utilities). Then, in the terminal that opens, type in >>'/sw/bin/scribus &'; OR menu: Applications/Customize... and edit >>one of the blank lines with Name: Scribus, Command: /sw/bin/scribus > >Now this is really bad advice :-) If you do this, you have good >chances that your PATH environment variable does not contain >/sw/bin, otherwise it would not have been necessary to give the >complete path to /sw/bin/scribus, it would have been sufficient to >type "scribus". > >Now if this PATH is incorrect, scribus will not find its helper >applications, like gs for example, and you will get errors >afterwards that are more difficult to understand and to debug. > >The right way to do it in the Applications menu of Apple's X11 is to put > >source /sw/bin/init.sh ; scribus > >there. Similarly if you start scribus from an xterm command line. > >Actually, my mistake (and you are making it, too) was to assume that >newbies would automatically have Apple's X11 installed. If they had, >they could use the "open-x11" command that comes with Apple's X11 >and that avoids having to start X11.app separately and to worry >about environment variables. > >It turns out that newbies nowadays often have a broken X11 >installation that they get from installing openoffice or some other >similar garbage. It's Apple's schizophrenic stand about open source >that is at fault, of course, in that they still don't really >acknowledge X11 as an integral part of any installation of MacOSX. > >>Better, yet, he can get AquaScribus and open scribus the "Mac way". >>Go to http://www.wordtech-software.com/aquascribus.html and >>download the launcher. This will first launch X11 and then Scribus. >>It will also associate scribus files with the launcher so >>double-clicking a .sla file will launch and open in Scribus. > >Note that for AquaScribus to work, you also need to have Apple's X11 >installed. So if open-x11 doesn't work, AquaScribus won't work >either. > >-- >Martin > > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
