[Scribus] Fwd: scribus failures under Mandrake Linux 10.1

[Plinnell]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 11:24, Craig Bradney wrote:
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> Subject: scribus failures under Mandrake Linux 10.1
> Date: Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:18
> From: Gerald Hooper <ghphpr at ntlworld.com>
> To: scribus at bit-consulting.net
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> Hi Group
> In the latest edition of Linux Format they discuss the DTP system Scribus
> 1.2 I had a look at this and decided to try and install the product under
> my Mandrake 10.1 OS.
> In this process I came across a problem in the Scribus requires freetype 2.
> I downloaded both the scribus-1.2 and freetype-2.1.9 from the Scribus Web
> Page. I also arranged proper access to gcc for compilation purposes. While
> I could get the freetype-2.1.9 to compile OK from the configuration/make
> tools provided the equivalent configure file in scribus-1.2 tells me that I
> need freetype2 to be installed even although I had provided it with the
> proper PATH for access purposes. Now I know that Mandrake actually uses
> freetype-1.3.1 which the scribus configure shell script seems to be picking
> up. Has anyone come across this problem and have any ideas on a possible
> way forward without mucking up my Mandrake System?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerry Hooper
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I strongly recommend end users *not* building and installing their own 
freetype2, as it is my observation that often distros do a fair amount of 
patching and configuration specific to their distro. Exception might be 
gentoo. 

Freetype2 is a core library which X-org, KDE and other major libraries depend 
on. A bit confusingly, Mandrake names Freetype2  libfreetype6 and 
libfreetype6-devel.  Those are the packages you want installed. I am willing 
to bet libfreetype6 is already installed. You probably just need the -devel 
rpm. The fix for you is installing the libfreetype6-devel rpm and you are all 
set. 

I have not used Mandrake much in the past but, demoed the latest CVS versions 
Scribus at Linux World in London on a machine which with Mdk 10.1. Just 
adding the correct -devel rpms from the DVD, enabled me to compile Scribus 
straight away without complication. 

I hope that helps,
Peter