On 12/02/2010 10:51 AM, John Culleton wrote: > 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.
On my Fedora system the exact name of the testing repo is: 'fedora-updates-testing.repo' so the proper command should be: 'yum --enablerepo=fedora-updates-testing.repo'
