[scribus] Idiot wants to build 1.5.0 from source

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:02:06 +0200
Peter Linnell <mrdocs at scribus.net> dijo:

>> Now to the point: I am also using Fedora and, like Greg, stuck at
>> 1.3.9.* While I want to play with 1.5.0, I'd also like to get 1.4.0
>> RC5 (and later RCs and the final). 

>There is a very simple solution to half this, at least the rc5 part:
>
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_14/
>
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_15/
>
>Add these repos in /etc/yum somewhere

I guess I don't understand "add these repos in /etc/yum somewhere." 

I have a folder /etc/yum.repos.d/. It contains half a dozen text files,
each apparently containing the information for a particular repository.
So I copied the link above for Fedora 14 into Gedit (as root) and saved
it into /etc/yum.repos.d/. Unfortunately, that causes Yumex to hang on
launch, with a clear error message that the culprit is the above repo
file. 

There is a GUI: System > Administration > Software Sources but, unlike
its counterpart that I recall from Ubuntu days, there is no Add button.
It merely displays the repositories that are enabled and those that
can be enabled (with a checkbox). 

Yumex also lists the repositories, and there are checkboxes to enable
additional repositories, but still no Add button.

If I use Firefox I can go to the URL and, indeed, all the rpms appear
to be there. I downloaded the RC5 rpm, plus podofo and libpodofo. I
installed the podofo rpms with rpm -i, but rpm -i won't install the
RC5 rpm. It gives me pages of conflicts with 1.3.9.