Has anyone been able to successfully install Scribus 1.3.3.13 on Mandriva 2009 Spring AFTER having installed the default version (1.3.5svn) that comes with the Mandriva repository? 1.3.5svn is not the stable version.
After removing it and then installing 1.3.3.13 (stable version), the menus will not show. I want to use 1.3.3.13 but can't seen to get it installed properly.

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Wayne

Had you installed a Mandriva specific 1.3.3.13 RPM, or downloaded the tarball available at the Scribus website? You are sure it hasn't installed, but just not showing in the menus? (if an RPM)

Try:

What did you do?

Scribus 1.3.3.13 actually installs but it requires libpython2.5. Scribus 1.3.5svn requires libpython2.6 and it was installed when I first installed 1.3.5svn. Now that I removed 1.3.5svn and tried to install 1.3.3.13, it asks for libpython2.5, which I can download from rpmfind and install. However, once I install both libpython2.5 (without first removing libpython2.6) and Scribus 1.3.3.13, none of the icons below the main menu are visible. A script error message also appears before Scribus starts up: "Setting up the python plugin failed. Error details were printed to stderr." Scribus does work but one has to maneuver without icons. The + and - zoom buttons at the bottom of the window are not visible either.

/usr/share/scribus does not exist, nor does any of the icons that are supposed to be in /usr/share/scribus/icons. When I run Scribus from the command line, I get a whole bunch of errors stating that my icons are missing. Also this error message: "Failed to import warnings module. Something is probably broken with your Python. Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module> ImportError: No module named warnings."


I tried to remove libpython2.6 but the number of programs that I would have to remove along with it makes it impractical to do so; almost everything that I have currently installed would have to be removed. I won't do that. It would be the equivalent of reinstalling Mandriva and starting all over. I may have to do that one day but not now.

Wayne

When you installed libpython2.5 did it ask for any deps? Python2.5.x, or anything else? Python 2.5.4 (if this is the matching version)is available to compile if you don't have it on your system already:

http://www.python.org/download/

I still don't know how and where you installed Scribus 1.3.3.13 from?

(I compiled an earlier version of Python so I could run a program (Elltube), with a later version already installed.)

Mandriva won't allow me to install python2.5x without first removing 2.6x so I'm back to where I started from. To install 1.3.3.13, I first have to uninstall both 1.3.5svn and libpython 2.6x which means I'll have to pretty much reinstall Mandriva 2009.1 again because to uninstall 2.6x, I'll first have to remove almost every piece of software I currently use.

Come to think of it, perhaps ALL of the software that I currently use depend on python2.6x. In which case, 1.3.3.13 would not install properly at all no matter what.

BTW, I got 1.3.3.13 from the link that you supplied earlier.

Wayne

There's only a 2009.0 scribus RPM and source tarball available for download at that site, and from what I imagine you have installed the 2009.0 scribus-1.3.3.13 and libpython2.5-2 RPMs on your 2009.1 system, along with their dependencies?

Not that this is necessarily a big deal as I have had to do this where KDE3.5 RPMs are no longer maintained in the 2009.1 repos.

Hmm, well removing libpython2.6 isn't really a viable option.

I'm not expert enough to know whether your "Something is probably broken with your Python. Traceback (most recent call last)" error pertains to the installed 2009.0 libpython2.5 RPM, or your 2009.1 version of Python.

You could go the tarball route...

downloading the tarball:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=125235

and follwing the instructions here:

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install4

Changing the 'S' of Scribus...

to lowercase:

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