[Fwd: Re: [Scribus] install problem under RH8]

[Peter Linnell]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 14:09, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> LinuxLingam wrote:
> <angst>
> 
> >guys, have still not managed to get scribus installed on my rh8 box.
> >please help, have put in more than 18 hours of hands-on time into this
> >already. yet, i do want to get scribus up and running on my box.
> >
> >please help.
> >  
> >
> </angst>
> 
> This may be an illustration of the difficulty of finding and lack of 
> clarity of all the necessary documentation on the Scribus site about 
> requirements and installation procedure. I know I have gone around in 
> circles sometimes at the site looking for something I know is or should 
> be there.
> 

That, I would respectfully have to disagree with.

Two clicks from the front page: Documentation > "Compiling Scribus for
The First Time."  finds this:
http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/compile.html#ss2.5http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/compile.html#ss2.5

This is a *very* detailed article - step by step on how to compile
Scribus from a source tarball. I wrote this from the perspective of
someone who had never ever compiled a single tarball before. I would be
interested to hear from anyone if there is anything missing or unclear.

That said, the website is a work in progress. Today, some long wanted
enhancements were made to allow us to reduce the clutter on the front
page. These are custom post-nuke modules, which allow greater control of
the layout from the default layout.

There is a search module, which actually works pretty well. The problem
at the moment is there are nearly 70 pages of static html, which needs
to get reformatted for the new content management system.Once its
loaded, all documentation will be searchable from the main page.

Thanks to Alex Moskalenko, the reformatting of the main help docs, is
moving forward. This make navigation and searching much easier. You
should see this on-line soon.

There are over 100 pages of docs and pdf for Scribus - yes somewhat
dated owning to the rapid development, but with more depth IMHO than
most OSS applications.

Peter
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