[scribus] Dual installation of 1.3.5 and 1.3.3.12 (Linux)

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 03:47:43 pm Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 15:38:38 John Culleton wrote:
> > I have 1.3.5 up and running merrily.  Now I have a problem with
> > installing 1.3.3.12 in parallel.  Can someone point me to the
> > correct info?
> >
> > I should add that I tried creating a directory /usr/local/early,
> > assigned that as the root for Scribus, compiled, linked all the
> > subdirectories under early into their /usr/local/ equivalents,
> > ran ldconfig and so on. But Scribus 1.3.3.12 still can't find
> > even its icons.
> >
> > If i just compile it the regular way then one or both of the
> > Scribus versions can't find things like icons, plug-ins and so
> > on. I am now reduced to running 1.3.3.12 on my Windows partition,
> > which is not what I like to do.
>
> Simply do not install into /usr/local but install with a prefix of
> /home/username/scribus/135 and 13312.. or if you must,
> /opt/scribus/135 and /13312.. or whatever. Installing them both
> into /usr/local will cause you to be mixing binaries and that will
> mean things break pretty quickly
>
> Craig

It's the plugins and icons that are the problem, not the binaries. I 
can rename binaries pretty easily. But it is the other thingies, 
located in places like /usr/local/lib/scribus, that cause the 
confusion. I recompiled 1.3.5 svn from scratch after deleting 
whatever I could find that is troublesome. 
The svn version now works again on my main partition without plugin 
error messages.

For now I am running 1.3.3.12 on a separate partition. If you can 
suggest a cure for the /usr/local/lib problem I'll give dual versions 
on the same partition another go.



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