[scribus] install failed

Jouni Filip Maho jofimaho at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 23:06:57 CET 2011


On 3 January 2011, at 22:05, a.l.e wrote:

> hi juoni filip
>
>> I've been trying to install Scribus on a Mac PPC G4 running OSX
>> 10.4.11 (Tiger). I've followed the instructions on this page:
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/ 
>> Installing_Scribus_on_Mac_with_MacPorts
>>
>> 1. I have X11
>> 2. I installed Xcodes 2.5
>> 3. I installed MacPorts, which then self-updated
>> 4. I typed in "sudo port install scribus" at the terminal and let it
>> do its work.
>>
>> I fell asleep and some 8 hours later, it seems to have worked Ok
>> until it stopped, almost at the end, with:
>>>
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: qt3 mesa xorg-
>> libXcursor xorg-libXinerama
>>> xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to proceed. Any hints would be very welcome.
>
> you should probably install scribus-ng instead of scribus.
>
> this will install scribus 1.3.9 which does not depend on X 11 and  
> and will use qt 4 instead of qt 3.


What's Scribus-ng, and where do I find it? Also, do I need to install  
Qt4 from the Nokia site?

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jofimaho




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