[scribus] putting Scribus on a CD

[Gregory Pittman]

alessandro rimoldi wrote:
> hi
>
>
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>>> Someone at work is wanting to use Scribus on her Windows computer at
>>> home. Unfortunately she has a dialup connection and the download
>>> won't work.
>>>
>>> 1. Is it possible for me to download from Sourceforge and put it on
>>> a CD for her? Will that work?
>>> 2. Is it possible to run Scribus from a CD? This might allow her to
>>> use it at work, where the computers won't allow users to install
>>> software.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>       
>> USB stick will probably work much better. I personally use
>> portableapps.com to give a nice little launch menu. I don't think
>> scribus has been packaged for their setup yet, but there's an easy
>> workaround as long as no registry entries are required.
>>
>> Here's what I do(tested with Inkscape)
>> 1. Install portableapps, just the 1MB version with the menu is enough.
>> 2. Install your app on a machine, then copy the app folder(probably in
>> C:Program File) to the usb drive,  putting the folder under the
>> portableapps folder on the usb drive. Any exe in the top level of the
>> of this folder will show up on the menu once you refresh.
>>
>> Speed will be significantly faster as long as you have usb 2.0, and
>> you can keep files on it. Plus I'm not sure if scribus has any config
>> files that get modified, if so you'd need the writable media.
>>     
>
> there is that portable scribus project.... it's not supported by the scribus team, but it may solve your problem...
>   
I'm going to try this on my own. Sounds the like CD is easy.
Want to see if installing on and using from a USB stick is challenging 
in any way.

Greg