[Scribus] Installing on Gentoo.

[John Culleton]

This will read like a bad vaudeville routine. Sorry.

The bad news is that Scribus 1.0 will not compile on Slackware Linux 
9.0 because of Qt problems.

The good news is that the clever can maintain two sets of Qt libraries 
and get it to compile.

The bad news is the the unclever (me) can trash KDE and lots of other 
things in this attrempt.

The good news is that Gentoo has all up to date libraries and it will 
compile there.

The bad news is that whereas .8 version will emerge and compile the 
1.0 version will not emerge because the distribution is "masked." 
(What does masked mean? Good question. I suspect it has something to 
do with a different download site than .8 but that is just my guess.)

The good news is that one can download it without using the emerge 
mechnism and unpack it, ./configure it etc. and it will compile clean 
and run.

The bad new is that having achieved this happy state I haven't a clue 
about  how to use it to do simple typesetting tasks. The manual just 
deals with the menus and their choices.
 
The remaining good news is that one of the gurus has promised a pdf 
manual. Hopefully it will be a bit of a tutorial.  
 
Ah me!
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com