[scribus] Latest in Xubuntu 13.10 is 1.4.2

[Craig Bradney]

On 9/12/2013 8:34 pm, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:22:42 -0500
> john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> dijo:
> 
>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:36:57 -0800
>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Thanks, but I probably failed to make something
>>> clear. The above worked fine for me, but it
>>> gives me access to 1.5.0 trunk. That is not
>>> what I want. I want just 1.4.3. My Xubuntu
>>> 13.10 has only 1.4.2 in the repos, not the
>>> latest stable 1.4.3.
>>>
>>> I also failed to grasp something about my old
>>> computer. Indeed, it does have 1.4.3 installed,
>>> but it also does have the 
>>>
>>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/scribus/ppa/ubuntu
>>> precise main 
>>>
>>> repo properly installed with the key. So that
>>> is how I installed 1.4.3 on 12.04. 
>>>
>>> I tried to install the above repo on my new
>>> 13.10 computer by editing "precise" to "saucy,"
>>> and it worked, but I can't get the key because
>>> the server does not respond.
> 
>> The solution for all linux distros is to compile
>>from svn. Here is my 1.4.x script:
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> rm -r /usr/local/src/s14x
>> cd /usr/local/src/
>> svn co
>> svn://scribus.net/branches/Version14x/Scribus
>> s14x cd s14x cmake .
>> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/scribus4_svn
>> make make install
>> cd scribus
>> ls -l scribus
>> rm /usr/local/bin/scrib4
>> ln scribus /usr/local/bin/scrib4
>> ------------------------------------
>> Of course you first have to install
>> build-essentials or its equivalent. You will need
>> cmake also. But the compile approach frees you
>> forever from the vagaries of various
>> repositories.
> 
> Would that script not install whatever is the latest in the 1.4x line?
> I don't want the latest builds; I just want the latest dot version that
> the devs have decided is stable enough to distribute as the latest
> release. 


It will, however 1.4.x is only getting fixes, so using the latest revision is going to be better
than 1.4.3. However.. -r 18392 as a parameter to the svn co option will get you 1.4.3

thanks
Craig