On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:43 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 23:52:02 +0100 > Bert Driehuis <[email protected]> dijo: > > >By adding a PPA, you automatically include that repository in your > >regular Ubuntu updates. Updates to Scribus will be applied at the same > >time that your regular Ubuntu updates are installed. You can see the > >details in the popup that announces regular updates. > > Bert, > > Thanks for the response. I know that a PPA adds whatever packages it > offers to the regular packages in the distro repositories. Except that, > in my case I was previously using the Appimage version of 1.5.3, and > Appimages don't use the repositories. Thus, after adding the PPA there > was no popup announcing that an update was available. > > However, that was to be expected. After adding the PPA I did 'sudo apt > update' to refresh the available packages, then looked in Synaptic > package manager to see what was available. I selected 1.5.6-trunk > which, according to the page which describes the PPA, I knew would be > the daily builds. If you use Synaptic to select a specific version, you may end up marking it as held in APT. I always avoid selecting a version in Synaptic. In the case of Scribus, you can safely install scribus-trunk and scribus-ng alongside the scribus package without locking down a version. I have Scribus, Scribus-NG and Scribus DailyBuild in my application menu. Of course, this makes opening a document from the Files window a toss-up (fortunately, you can select which package should handle .sla files in the Open With settings). > The daily builds do not change the packages that are available, so if > there is a new build, it does not appear in the updates, and there will > never be a popup. That is not correct. Updated packages will result in a new version for the underlying the dpkg package. Look for a version number like 1.5.6svn~r23206~20190923~ppa74~ubuntu18.04.1 to identify a daily build. You may need the command line for that (see below). >On launchpad.net-scribus I see that there have been a > couple of new builds since I installed 1.5.6-trunk. When running > Scribus 1.5.6svn there is an option to look for updates, which I have > not yet used. I do not know what that option does on Linux. I do not believe this option jives well with a PPA repository mainained package, so it should probably be greyed out on PPA or comparable repo builds. > But Scribus here has been shut down and re-launched > several times, so it's possible that these new builds have been added > and I am now alrready using a later build. I'm just trying to figure out > how I can tell which build I am using. After all, if I encounter a bug > and wish to report it I'd certainly need to specify which build I was > using when I ran into it. My Scribus daily build has an About->Scribus menu, which shows a "Build ID: C--T-F-C1.15.10-64bit". But if you report issues about scribus-trunk from the PPA, you may wish to include the output from dpkg -l scribus-trunk|cat to make sure. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu world has gotten quite complicated with flatpacks, snaps and appimages, which do not follow (and usually conflict with) APT guidelines. I try to stick with APT-managed packages as much as I can. With kind regards, Bert Driehuis ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
