[scribus] Making 1.5.3 work (Ian Whitfield)

[Carl Symons]

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:54:37 +0200
> From: Ian Whitfield <whitfield at telkomsa.net>
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Making 1.5.3 work
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> Hi All
>
> Have been watching this with interest...
>
> Tks Jluc - I can download the link you supplied but are there
> instructions on what to do with it??
> Would be interested as I badly want to try the new Scribus.
>
> IanW
>
> Pretoria RSA
>
>
> On 01/16/2017 11:10 PM, JLuc wrote:
>> Le 16/01/2017 ? 21:18, John Culleton a ?crit :
>>> Using the jluc script I can make it work only if I compile as root and
>>> use as root. Permission problem, but who knows where.
>>
>> John, here you should be able to download and execute
>> today's compiled and bundled imageapp for linux :
>> https://transfer.sh/eMXiL/scribus-git869382d-glibc2.14-x86-64.appimage
>>
>> Warning : CTL merge breaks text layout of previously laidout documents
>>
>> JLuc
>

http://appimage.org/

halfway down the page "Now what?"

However ...
-rwxr-xr-x  1 carl users 126025728 Jan 17 07:41
scribus-git869382d-glibc2.14-x86-64.appimage

./scribus-git869382d-glibc2.14-x86-64.appimage
[wait, wait, wait]
pathForIcon: Unable to load icon
././/share/scribus/icons/1_5_1/AppIcon.png: File not found
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
ImportError: No module named site
Scribus Crash
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Scribus crashes due to Signal #11
Segmentation fault (core dumped)