Elaine de Saxe wrote: > Good morning ... I'm playing about with Linux distros trying to > decide which one/s will do what I need ... > > Out of the myriad of distros, I chose seven to trial. > > The first is Ubuntu and I discover to my surprise, that I can only > get 1.2x via Synaptic. I read Aleksandr's comment about the Ubuntu > developers and since I'm more interested in Scribus than Ubuntu, I'm > happy to go on to another distro. > > These are the ones I have available right now: > > btw using an ex-PC laptop with a P3 800mHz and 300+ RAM - if that's > at all useful information. > > Simply Mepis 6 > Zen 4.2 - have only the live CD - how do I run Scribus this way? I > can always buy the Instal disk! > Kubuntu 6.10 - same issue I suppose. > Damn Small Linux 3.2 > Linux Mint 2.2 > somewhere around there's a Fedora Core 5 (I think). > > Which one/s if any, will run the latest Scribus? > > I just loaded scribus via yum on my wife's FC6 -- latest seems to be 1.3.3.6 on Livna. I think it's worth the effort to learn how to compile your own, at least from the latest official release (currently 1.3.3.8), since every once in a while there is some issue that gets fixed yet takes a little time to find its way to the available binaries. You can have more than one version on your machine this way as well.
Greg
