[scribus] BUILDING and Debian

Owen rcook at pcug.org.au
Tue Oct 26 02:25:59 UTC 2021


Installed Debian-11.1. The BUILDING states that Scribus "Can't be built
on debian"

The problem would appear to be harfbuzz, the debian repository doesn't
have it all.

If you build hb from source into /usr/local, libreoffice spits the
dummy. So I built it into /opt and used -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib
to complete the build.

So now I have a nice new Scribus 1.5.8.svn (r24748)

It was built with Qt version 5.15.2, but a month ago was advised
Scribus would need Qt-6.? 

So I downloaded/built Qt-6.2 and tried to link it to the build. That
linking was politely ignored.

Also installed the latest Ubuntu 21.04 or 21.10 then built Scribus on
that. No problems at all and guess the Ubuntu repositories have the
"full" harfbuzz needed for building. 

It really is a very nice program and thanks to all who have made it
possible.


Owen





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