On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:52, Gregory Pittman wrote: > BandiPat wrote: > > Gregory Pittman wrote: > > >>> > >> I don't know if anyone else checked this out, but Inkscape has some > >> library requirements that left me with a long list of deficiencies > >> when you try to compile. I didn't have the energy to chase down all > >> the things I needed. At least Sodipodi is more modest in its > >> requirements -- still rather crashy, though. > >> > >> Gregory Pittman > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Gregory, > > Don't remember what distro you are running, but believe it to be SuSE > > 9.0?? I have created a real SuSE rpm from a spec file and it should > > work for most folk's using 9.0 SuSE. I am updated to KDE 3.2 though, so > > if you don't have that, you might run into some problems. I think Peter > > was going to create a rpm for a base/unchanged SuSE 9.0 install, but not > > sure if he got around to it or not. > > Right now it's RH9 (but with a 2.4.23 kernel outside of RH), KDE 3.1.2, > Qt 3.3 > Like many, I'm trying to figure out where I'm going later this year > after RH stops updating RH9. The thing I don't like about SuSE is that > it only keeps me stuck in many of the same problems I have with RH -- > the RPMs are behind, sometimes *way* behind the development curve, > although arguably SuSE may be a bit more aggressive that RH has become > for all us non-Enterprise users. Then there's all these > incompatibilities -- I especially hate it when an RPM complains of > incompatibility when I don't have an *older* version of some library. > > But the biggest thing is with cutting edge development like Scribus, > where you absolutely want to compile and trying to update libraries by > compiling causes no end of trouble because the gods of RPMs have their > own scheme of where various files go -- it makes me look forward to the > day when Linux will be RPM-free: in some ways, RPMs have that > Microsoft-brainless mentality to them.
If you have a decent net connection, then you may find Gentoo suits your needs. None of this RPM rubbish to speak of ;). get it booting to command line emerge kde scribus come back when its done and use scribus. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040225/ac0dd94e/attachment.pgp
