Trying to install Scribus 1.0 on RedHat 9 (2.4.20-8).

Got scribus-1.0.tar.gz and scribus-i18n-en.tar.gz and untarred them. Went to the scribus-1.0 dir and did ./configure and got this warning:

checking for freetype-config... ./configure: line 1883: WARNING:: command not found
no
configure: WARNING: You need at least libfreetype 5.0

and then it stopped at this:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

So I did this:

./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/bin/X

Which stopped at this:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X libraries. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

So I did this:

./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/bin/X

Which stopped at this:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

When I do the --x-includes again, it goes back to the X libraries error.

So, can someone help me? I just want to use Scribus to replace PageMaker so I can be Windoze FREE!

TIA

install xfree86-devel

Thanks DrOzz, but that has led me down the *yellow brick road* of dependencies!

Think I'll just stick with PageMaker in Windoze for now. I've used it for over 10 years, and I think it would take that long to run down all the *stuff* needed to get Scribus to working! It only takes 3 minutes to install PageMaker - complete with print drivers, fonts, and the works. Doesn't anyone write open source software with some step-by-step instructions, since it doesn't come with all the packages you need?

I will make the transition from Windoze to Linux, if it kills me! Which is what it looks like. I'll be dead before I find everything needed to install a simple program.

Simple. apt-get or http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpm-get/ rpm-get depending on your distribution will solve your dependancy problems without much fuss.

Configuring for RedHat [ OK ]
Checking for lynx [ OK ]
Checking for awk [ OK ]
Checking for sed [ OK ]
Checking for rpm [ OK ]
Checking for wget [ OK ]
Checking for tr [ OK ]
Checking for config files [ PRESENT ]
Checking for config file Version [ FAILD ]
Creating new config file [ OK ]

Creating Directorys and Database files, this might take time.
Go buy a pizza or something.

Generating /var/lib/rpm-get/RPMS-list
Can't Access `file://localhost/RPMS/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile
[ OK ]
Generating /var/lib/rpm-get/SRPMS-list
Can't Access `file://localhost/root/rpm-get/ftp-path-to-sources'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile
[ OK ]
Checking to see if /var/lib/rpm-get/rpm-list.db.bz2 is present: [ PRESENT ]

There are 0 packages in the database, and 0 to add to the database
Do you wish to recreate the database ? [y/n]:y
Generating /var/lib/rpm-get/rpm-list.db [ CREATING ]
(Dont be suprised if this operation takes 4 hours)
[ OK ]
Compressing the database bzip2: Output file /var/lib/rpm-get/rpm-list.db.bz2 already exists.



[ DONE ]

Installing manual page and doing post-install configurations.
cp: cannot stat `rpm-get.1.bz2': No such file or directory

[ INSTALLED ]

[root@localhost rpm-get]#