* Roger <hovergo at net-tech.com.au> [2007-05-18 11:16:46 +1000]: > On my hard disk I had Fedora Core 6 and a working Scribus 1.3.3.8 > > I installed Ubuntu Edgy generic from Canonical over the top of FC6 leaving > the > /home partition and all the working software untouched. > Blender and other software works well with the change , Scribus does not. > What can be the reason/s for this please. > I have used apt-get to install lcms and now am out of ideas. > Do I have to delete that version of Scribus and apt-get install another > version.
Hello Roger, Since you primary system now has Ubuntu libraries the scribus that you probably compiled by yourself under FC6 cannot run because it was compiled against different libraries. You have a couple of options now: 1. Remove the directory where you installed scribus previously and use aptitude, synaptic, or apt to install the "scribus" package from our repositories thus switching to automatically getting updates when we issue them without a need to compile and install your own scribus instance. See http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running and http://debian.scribus.net. 2. Download the scribus 1.3.3.9 tarball and compile your own scribus instance again. See http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Building_CVS_versions_with_CMake for more information. > Reason for this is I am introducing a number of friends to Scribus on Edgy > and ran into a difficulty or two. > -- Having to long distance teach them gedit to alter the repository > information in /etc/apt/sources.list, scary stuff for mortals. > -- There is mention of Scribus problems in edgy on the web and this may > scare > my newbies away. > > Are there successful Scribus-on-Edgy users out there, what did you do to > achieve > successful use, which version of Scribus do you use. > > TIA > Roger We (i.e. I on behalf of Scribus Team) maintain our own Debian/ubuntu scribus package archive just so that the Debian/'buntu users wouldn't have to go through the hassle of compiling and maintaining their own scribus installations. I currently support the three main Debian branches - unstable/testing/stable and three most recent Ubuntu releases - Feisty, Edgy, and Dapper. You should save your own time and effort and get your newbie friends to use a graphical package manager i.e. synaptic or Adept or whatever else Ubuntu is pushing these days. I personally use aptitude on Debian, but that's a matter of individual preference I suppose. If you tell them to use synaptic or adept they won't ever have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. This page - http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running explains the process using Adept with screenshots to make it easier. Please note that screenshots use dapper and you should use edgy as explained in http://debian.scribus.net. If you run into any troubles while going along with the above documents or have more questions please reply to the list, contact me directly, or join the #scribus IRC channel on freenode where you can get real-time help. Cheers, Alex.
