[scribus] program download not working - ideas?

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Wed Nov 23 19:57:52 UTC 2011


On 11/23/11 5:02 PM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> hi
>
>>>> I have just downloaded Scribus to my Macbook Pro, OS 10.4.11, and
>>>> the application does not launch. It downloaded alright (~200mb), I
>>>> dragged it to my applications folder, as I was instructed to do,
>>>> and the icon is there in my list. But when I click  on it, nothing
>>>> happens. When I ctrl click, I can open up the app contents and
>>>> there are a bunch of folders with content I can't open either.
>>>>
>> We just experiencd the same yesterday here in Tunis : Scribus works
>> for 10.5 -> 10.7 but not on 10.4. Can't know why.
> so, we can say that 10.4 is not supported anymore.
>
> not a good news but, well, i think that we have to accept it!

Its not bad news.. its life. Fink and Macports have deprecated Tiger support along with many other
packages. Many have also dumped Leopard support or are close to doing so.

Its not to say Scribus doesn't run on Tiger, but we won't spend any time on testing it anymore. If
you install the old fink package and upgrade it, and install all of the packages required for
Scribus, you can build either the fink based Scribus package or the svn source. Don't tell me it
doesn't run.. because my old tiger build machine is sitting here and it does work.

Craig



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