[scribus] downloading Scribus 1.3.3.12

[Alison Saylor]

Oh, that's very kind of you, thank you!  I will retrace my steps so I
can be more specific in my feedback.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Oleksandr Moskalenko
<malex at scribus.info> wrote:
> * Alison Saylor <alison.saylor at gmail.com> [2009-01-21 12:50:59 -0800]:
>
>> Oh, I see.  I wish I knew what all those terms meant that you just
>> used.  I hate to think my lack of understanding will prevent me from
>> using the program.  Thank you for explaining it though, I appreciate
>> it.
>
> Alison,
>
> If the documentation at http://www.scribus.net/?q=debian is not sufficiently
> understandable please tell the specifics, so I could improve it. The
> step-by-step instructions were created to aid people who might not know anything
> about installing software packages on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. So, if you run into
> problems and describe them it could help me improve documents for others to come
> after you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Oleksandr Moskalenko
>> <malex at scribus.info> wrote:
>> > * Alison Saylor <alison.saylor at gmail.com> [2009-01-21 10:49:17 -0800]:
>> >
>> >> Thank you for writing!  Yes, I did try that page.  When I clicked on
>> >> the link for my version of Ubuntu, it took me to a page that said I
>> >> was not authorized to access the page.
>> >
>> > Alison,
>> >
>> > It's not a website for clicking around. It's a software repository. You are
>> > supposed to add it to your package manager using the instructions provided at
>> > http://www.scribus.net/?q=debian. Then, scribus packages from the repository
>> > will become available in your package manager software and you can install or
>> > upgrade to them.
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>> >> > Alison Saylor wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I used Scribus 1.3.3.11 for a newsletter and it took forever because
>> >> >> you could only import text files as .txt so all the formatting was
>> >> >> lost and had to be redone for each article.  I heard that subsequent
>> >> >> version were going to fix this but I can't seem to find any definite
>> >> >> information about this anywhere.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thought I'd download version 1.3.3.12 and just try it and see but
>> >> >> somehow I can't find a simple way to do this.  Every link I tried on
>> >> >> Scribus.net took me to a dead end.  It was so simple downloading it
>> >> >> the first time so it's confusing.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I am able to install applications easily with the add/remove feature
>> >> >> in applications (I'm using Ubuntu Hardy) but there's no way to tell
>> >> >> before installation what version it is.  At least I can't figure out
>> >> >> how to tell.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Any help anyone could provide me with would be much appreciated.  Thank
>> >> >> you!
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Have you tried the instructions on this page?:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.scribus.net/?q=debian
>> >> >
>> >> > Greg
>> >> >
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