On Friday 12 December 2008 17:31:22 John Culleton wrote: > On Wednesday 10 December 2008 03:47:43 pm Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 December 2008 15:38:38 John Culleton wrote: > > > I have 1.3.5 up and running merrily. Now I have a problem with > > > installing 1.3.3.12 in parallel. Can someone point me to the > > > correct info? > > > > > > I should add that I tried creating a directory /usr/local/early, > > > assigned that as the root for Scribus, compiled, linked all the > > > subdirectories under early into their /usr/local/ equivalents, > > > ran ldconfig and so on. But Scribus 1.3.3.12 still can't find > > > even its icons. > > > > > > If i just compile it the regular way then one or both of the > > > Scribus versions can't find things like icons, plug-ins and so > > > on. I am now reduced to running 1.3.3.12 on my Windows partition, > > > which is not what I like to do. > > > > Simply do not install into /usr/local but install with a prefix of > > /home/username/scribus/135 and 13312.. or if you must, > > /opt/scribus/135 and /13312.. or whatever. Installing them both > > into /usr/local will cause you to be mixing binaries and that will > > mean things break pretty quickly > > > > Craig > > It's the plugins and icons that are the problem, not the binaries. I > can rename binaries pretty easily. But it is the other thingies, > located in places like /usr/local/lib/scribus, that cause the > confusion. I recompiled 1.3.5 svn from scratch after deleting > whatever I could find that is troublesome. > The svn version now works again on my main partition without plugin > error messages. > > For now I am running 1.3.3.12 on a separate partition. If you can > suggest a cure for the /usr/local/lib problem I'll give dual versions > on the same partition another go.
I have given you that suggestion.. stop using /usr/local. There is nothing simpler than that. Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20081212/46360553/attachment.htm>
