[Scribus] Debian/Ubuntu scribus-ng

Oleksandr Moskalenko malex
Fri Apr 14 01:48:39 CEST 2006


* Greg Hill <bettyandgreg at ns.sympatico.ca> [2006-04-13 20:14:18 -0300]:

> Perhaps someone on the list can help me with the latest version of Scribus-ng. 
> I'm running Debian-Ubuntu KDE and up until now have had no problem 
> downloading and installing the latest and greatest Scribus-cvs. However, 
> today I got the Scribus-ng using Synaptic, along with doc-ng, etc.
> Everything seemed to install OK with no complaints from the system. The 
> program opens OK, I can set the page size and margins without any problem. 
> But here's the thing. When I draw a picture box and import a photo, Scribus 
> crashes every time. I tried using the menu to "insert" photo box, but the 
> second a photo is brougoht into the box, the whole thing seems to "fall 
> apart". This is really quite annoying, as Scribus is of no use to me if I 
> can't import photos. I updated QT to qt3....same thing. Anyone know what's 
> going on? I have used Scribus almost since its inception and I love the 
> program (sigh!).
> 
> Greg

Greg,

Please follow the instructions at http://debian.scribus.org and build a
binary from the source package. I will look into reviving my ubuntu hoary qemu
image to try testing the package myself, but it would help if you did the
above.

Regards,

Alex.



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