On 20 Oct 2005, at 21:34, Brian Burger wrote: > On 10/20/05, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote: > > Ah. Unfortunately, the work I am currently doing requires LOTS of > > tables. It is also unfortunate that I am unable to run anything but > > 1.2-something, because that is all that can be installed on my > > Ubuntu-64 Breezy (5.10) computer. Later versions of Scribus (betas) > > are not available yet. And yes, I have every conceivable repository > > listed.
> John, you can always compile a more recent version of Scribus than the > one Ubuntu ships with. > > I'm sure someone here can point you toward a new-Linux-user-friendly > guide to compiling... (I use Ubuntu myself but haven't yet compiled > anything in the six months I've been using it...) I'm sure someone could point me all kinds of directions. Fact is, I'm one of those "desktop" Linux users, not running a server, not a comp-sci guy -- you know, the dudes that many Linux purists think should never be allowed to turn on a computer, let alone use Linux. The result is that not only do I not know how to compile a program, I don't "want* to know how to compile a program. Linux has made great strides and will continue to do so. I use OpenOffice.org now to the point where I recently uninstalled Word. I need Scribus to reach that level of sophistication before it will do what I need to do. I think that may come fairly quickly, considering the rate at which Scribus is improving. I just took a jump at it a bit sooner than I should have. Thanks to all for the comments. :)
