On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:21:58 +0100 Peter Linnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> dijo:
>>>>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo: >>>>>> My main computer is my laptop, which has Fedora 14, x86_64. >>>>> I finally found it. The syntax is "yum >>>>> --enablerepo=updates-testing install scribus." But apparently >>>>> 1.4.0 RC1 isn't in updates-testing yet: >>>>> scribus-1.3.9-1.fc14.x86_64 already installed and latest version >>>>> Nothing to do >>>> I just verified that 1.4.0 RC1 is not yet in Fedora >>>> updates-testing. Has it not been sent to them yet? Or have the >>>> fine folks at Fedora lost the file? >> All Linux users have the option of downloading the source code via >> svn, compiling Scribus, and installing it. The Wiki gives adequate >> instructions. That frees you from waiting on someone to put together >> a deb or rpm package. You will first need to download and install >> the gcc compiler. I already to this each night for the 1.5.0 >> version. Today I will set it up for 1.4.0 as well. >Correct. However, some folks like to use their native package manager >for their distribution. Even someone like me who has all the >development tools needed, I generally prefer even myself to use >packages. The exceptions for me are Scribus and Fontmatrix. > >Moreover, not everyone has the knowledge of diagnosing failed compiles. >Often the error messages are not exactly friendly to someone new to >Linux.. > >As for Scribus, I think the team as a whole does a really good job of >releasing packages for all the platforms in a timely manner. Most of >the time the MacOSX, Windows, Debian/Ubuntu and rpms are all ready at >release time. Os/2 usually does not lag too often either. (Thanks >Paul!) I am sure that the problem lies with Fedora. When 1.3.9 was released I was able to install it from updates-testing right away. But they seem to have misplaced the 1.4.0 RC1 package.
