It may be necessary to configure the manager to install packages from third party repositories, as evidenced by the installation process for Debian and Ubuntu packages shown on. Many of the distributions have a GUI package manager that avoids any need to type commands to manually install Scribus: drakrpm for Mandriva, YaST for SUSE, Synaptic for Ubuntu, and so on. It often happens that Scribus is automatically included in the installation or upgrade of some distributions, and for example in Mandriva it can be found in the menu under Applications > Office. Scribus is available as an RPM for all the distributions associated with Red Hat, and also for SUSE and Mandriva. Some have installation packages, and for the rest, source code and all necessary other requirements are available to compile. Scribus is available for all distributions of Linux.

So for now, use 1.4, which is stable, and available for various operating systems. Once 1.5 has reached the point of being considered stable, it will be called 1.6, and that will become the official stable release. Somewhere ahead of this is a developmental version, version 1.5, which is not recommended for routine professional use, although it is available, and can coexist with 1.4 on your system. Free software typically has a numerical system which it uses in the software development process.Īt the time of the writing of this book, the current official stable release is version 1.4. Versioningīefore installing Scribus, it's useful to understand its versioning system. Is the site where you will find links to all the packages as well as information on some installation procedures. Since this book has as its main purpose showing some best practices when using Scribus, the authors consciously chose to place the installation here in the appendix.

Why wait to talk about installation until the end of the book? Installation is certain a requirement prior to your first steps in learning the software, but it's not part of the usage of the software itself.

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