hi marcus, > I installed Scribus on my old G4 laptop in 2007 without a hitch and > flawlessly. > Scribus was still going strong when a freak power surge in the > community fried her. > Three years later, installing Scribus has been a nightmare fifteen > days of tracking down several obsolete Xcode versions dating from 1.1 > through to 2.4.1 at Apple.com/installing > LillyPond/TeX/Pov-Ray/AquaTerm/Graphiz/Ghostwriter- also included in > some other bundle somewhere etc etc.
you could have asked earlier :-) and you only need scribus to install scribus: all the rest are optional dependencies. > It does a nice job 'initialising', 'checking on fonts' and then BOOM! > it folds and disappears from my dock with no explanation. No > indication whats wrong, where the problem or what the issue is and > how to resolve it. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Any > input appreciated. > > Am working on an iMac running Mac OS X 4.11 ppc you have to install it through fink. just choose scribus1.3.5svn (or similar... it will show a version of 1.3.6) the .dmg does not support os x 10.4. have not tested scribus' fink on ppc, but it works on os x 10.4 on intel. you will need much time to compile qt 4 (not sure if fink has a pre compiled version of it for ppc... you may try to first install qt and than scribus to avoid installing from sources). hth a.l.e
