Craig Ringer wrote: > Julian Robbins wrote: > >> I think your problem is the same as I had. In debian/ubuntu that one of >> the reqd cms libs isnt pulled in at the time. You may want to check that >> the suggests or recommends packages are also installed. > > That's pretty weird. Scribus should not even launch if liblcms is linked > to the executable but not installed. It doesn't dlopen() it later or > otherwise handle it being missing. > > I've just checked the Ubuntu 8.10 Scribus package and it does list > "liblcms1" in the dependency list. So it really should be installed > automatically along with Scribus. > > Maybe an update was pulled in when you ran "apt-get install liblcms1", > so it was actually already installed? I'm pretty sure there was an lcms > update in Ubuntu recently, so that's probably it. > >> Additional -> I've just checked in Synaptic and you also also need the >> iccprofiles package, which doesnt get pulled in by Scribus/littlecms by >> the look of it. > > Yep, and without this it'll still run. Missing required ICC profiles are > the most likely cause of this problem. > > I think hiding the UI when profiles aren't found is a real usability > issue, and it seems to cause a fair bit of confusion. > > The icc-profiles package is in Ubuntu Multiverse. This may not be > enabled by default; I'm not sure. If it's not, you can probably enable > it using the GUI package manager. Others who use the GUI might be able > to offer more detailed instructions. > > -- > Craig Ringer > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > I just installed Scribus-ng from the Ubuntu repos - and - it also has the same problems as the regular Scribus - no ICC Profiles :-(
Perhaps I will download and manually install the source tarball ...... mmm Blessings, Nigel -- PrayingForIsrael.net http://www.prayingforisrael.net/
