[scribus] Latest in Xubuntu 13.10 is 1.4.2

[john Culleton]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:34:54 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> 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. 
> 
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T

1.4.3 is considered stable. I have not found any
problems with my svn version thereof. In that
line of development bugs have been fixed but no
new features added. Now I don't use 1.4.3 that
often, having moved on to 1.5.0. I
always maintain backup copies of both versions so
that if a problem occurs I can back up to an earlier 
version. But as I stated I haven't found a
problem with 1.4.3 svn and rarely has 1.5.0 svn
failed me. 

Enough bugs have been found and fixed already in
the 1.4.x progression that I would rather rely on
1.4.x svn than 1.4.2.

Have you tried Ubuntu or Debian repositories?
There are 1.4.3 overnights for Ubuntu available
on on the Scribus site.



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