[scribus] Announcement: Scribus 1.3.9 released

[Randolph Bentson]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:50:32PM +0000, Gerard Cunningham wrote:
 
> Remember what I said about fool proof? Can you
> clarify for me, where do I create that directory?
> Is it:
> 1. /scribus-1.3.9
> 2. /home/scribus-1.3.9
> 3. /home/username/scribus-1.3.9
> 4. /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9
> 
> Maybe I was over thinking it , but lacking
> further clarity, I went with option 1.

I recommend creating directories
  /home/username/Download
  /home/username/src
  /home/username/bin

Fetch tarball, zip file, etc. into the first;
extract contents to the second, where you compile;
and install into the third.

Make sure your PATH environment variable includes an entry for
the latter.  This is generally done with entries such as
  PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
  export PATH
in your shell start-up scripts such as .bash_profile.

If you're interested in maintaining multiple versions of
some program, rename the bare executable to a name with
its version , e.g., "scribus" to "scribus-1.3.8", before
installing the latest with the bare name.

-- 
Randolph Bentson
bentson at holmsjoen.com