[scribus] Installing Scribus 1.4.8 on Ubuntu-based Linux OS

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Geoff

There are themes you can choose from, maybe that makes it look a little better. Maybe the OS has not told Qt what theme to use well or something

Craig

On 03/03/2022, 17:18, "Geoffrey Dow" <geoffdow at gmail.com> wrote:

    Thanks for your reply Mattia,

    Someone replied to me off-list with a link to an appimage (
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.4.9.svn/scribus-1.4.9.svn.23989-linux-x86_64.AppImage/download)
    which seems to work (though its interface looks like something out of the
    Windows95 era).

    I had been running Linux Mint, but upgrading that saw my speakers stop
    working, so I have switched to Linuxliteos until such a time as my hardware
    gives up the ghost and I'm forced to move into a more modern era.


    Geoff


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    On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 10:58, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at mapreri.org> wrote:

    > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Geoffrey Dow wrote:
    > > I'm running an old piece of hardware that *really* balked when I
    > installed
    > > 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 alike, so I want to return to 1.4 in order to lay out a
    > > novel.
    >
    > The problem is that scribus 1.4.x requirer some pieces that are nowadays
    > considered very old and deprecated, so to not get mad you'd need also an
    > older version of ubuntu (or whatever you mean with "ubuntu-based").
    >
    > In particular, ubuntu 20.04 is no good, just looking at LTSs you'd be
    > stuck with 18.04, and if that's acceptable to you, then you can get it
    > from the PPA ppa:scribus/ppa.
    >
    > Otherwise, I don't know, did anybody prepare an appimage/snap/something
    > with 1.4.8 that can run in something more recent?
    > I recommend against trying to forward-port qt4 into ubuntu 20.04,
    > although possible, that can easily end badly if mismanaged.
    >
    > --
    > regards,
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