[scribus] Idiot wants to build 1.5.0 from source

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 09:18:05 am John Culleton 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 06:15:45 am a.l.e wrote:
> > hi
> > 
> > > Looking at /usr/local/scribus_svn/bin/ there is an
> 
> executable with the
> 
> > > name "scribus." Launching it starts Scribus 1.3.9. 
Its
> 
> properties says
> 
> > > it is owned by root. Launching it from the command 
line
> 
> as root gives
> 
> > > me:
> > > 
> > > [root at Devil8 bin]# scribus
> > > No protocol specified
> > > scribus: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> > > 
> > > The properties for the executable only say that it is
> 
> owned by root;
> 
> > > there is no further information about the file.
> > 
> > please, refrain from running scribus as root!
> > 
> > it's not a good idea.
> > 
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
> > 
> > ___
> 
> In general you cannot run anything from the gui if you 
have
> signed on as a user and then done su in a GUI console
> session to get root privileges. So at runtime use your 
user
> sign in as ALE recommends.
> 
> Building Scribus is a different matter.
> My method is to build Scribus as root using cron 
overnight,
> but then run it from my user name. Cron runs with root
> privleges.
> 
> My cron call is very simple. In the folder
> /etc/cron.daily
> I have a two line file that looks like this:
> 
> /usr/local/scrib140
> /usr/local/scrib150
> 
> This file is made executable by the command:
> chmod 777 (filename)
> The texts of scrib140 and scrib150 have been posted 
before.
> They also have to be made executable with chmod.
> 
> Note that for my method the files
> /usr/local/src/s140
> and
> /usr/local/src/s150


Correction "the directories /usr/local/src/s140.."
-- 
John Culleton

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