[scribus] Dual installation of 1.3.5 and 1.3.3.12 (Linux)

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Wed Dec 10 21:47:43 CET 2008


On Wednesday 10 December 2008 15:38:38 John Culleton wrote:
> I have 1.3.5 up and running merrily.  Now I have a problem with
> installing 1.3.3.12 in parallel.  Can someone point me to the correct
> info?
>
> I should add that I tried creating a directory /usr/local/early,
> assigned that as the root for Scribus, compiled, linked all the
> subdirectories under early into their /usr/local/ equivalents, ran
> ldconfig and so on. But Scribus 1.3.3.12 still can't find even its
> icons.
>
> If i just compile it the regular way then one or both of the Scribus
> versions can't find things like icons, plug-ins and so on. I am now
> reduced to running 1.3.3.12 on my Windows partition, which is not
> what I like to do.


Simply do not install into /usr/local but install with a prefix of 
/home/username/scribus/135 and 13312.. or if you must, /opt/scribus/135 and 
/13312.. or whatever. Installing them both into /usr/local will cause you to 
be mixing binaries and that will mean things break pretty quickly

Craig

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