On Thursday 02 December 2010 02:39:26 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:11:02 -0500 > > Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo: > >> I'm still waiting for it to appear in the Fedora repositories as > >> well. But it will get there. I can be patient. > > > >I know that Fedora will indeed have a 64-bit update, and probably > >soon. Ubuntu was supposed to be helping us get Scribus into the > >mainstream repos for the various *buntus, but I don't know the > > status of that. > > I am giving my long awaited presentation on Scribus to our local > LUG tomorrow evening. It would be cool if I had 1.3.9, but it's > still not in the Fedora updates repo. Apparently it is in > updates-testing, and I tried to enable that repo temporarily just > so I could grab it easily, but yum is a mysterious woman. I > followed the man page to the letter, but it does not work - "yum > --enablerepo=updates-testing." And instead of telling me > specifically what I did wrong it just dumps the contents of --help. > I long for my Ubuntu days when I could use Synaptic. > > Oh well. My audience knows little of Scribus. They probably won't > even notice I'm still using 1.3.8. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus Attention all Linux users. You can wait for the repository or do what I do, compile from source. Here are the steps: 1. Download from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.3.9/ the file: scribus-1.3.9.tar.bz2 2. go to a command console and execute bunzip2 scribus-1.3.9.tar.bz2 3. tar xvf scribus-1.3.9.tar 4. cd Scribus-1.3.9 5. cmake . (note the space followed by a period) (go have lunch or do something else on the computer for an hour or three).
Compiling from source means you never have to wait for someone to update a repository. I do that with most of my publishing programs. I use Slackware 13.0 and the xfce desktop gui. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
