[scribus] Some observations after using 1.5.3 for a while

[Craig Bradney]

> On 23 Feb 2017, at 09:36, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> 
> hi martin
> 
>> Right now I am trying to compile - but now struggling to download a lot
>> of QT5 stuff for my Ubuntu virtual machine (there was some "linguistic"
>> stuff missing in my packet-manager, so now I go for the entire installer
>> from the QT website). 1.5.3 will be awesome for our language.
> 
> imo, if you're trying to get the newest scribus to run in a virtual machine the most useless thing to do, is to compile / manally fetch parts (or all) of qt!
> 
> first, use a linux distribution / version that has everything you need for compiling scribus.
> the latest ubuntu and debian testing are (as an example) more than fine.

Or just download the Qt installer and run it. It works fine on ubuntu etc
> 
> second: i hope you know that compiling in a vm takes much longer than doing the same on your computer...

Depends on the computer spec.


Craig