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## 2. Installation

## 2.1 How to obtain Scribus

You can get the most recent version of Scribus from the Scribus home page at:

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid

## 2.2 Requirements

In order to compile and use Scribus you need:

1. Qt-2.2.2 - both the runtime libraries and development libaries. Currently the Qt 3.0 libraries are not supported. All the 2.3.x versions have been tested and work well. 2.3.2 is the latest version from Trolltech. Using the compiled libraries from your distribution is reccommended.

2. Ghostscript > 5.50 or greater. Note on Red Hat 7.x, Ghostscript 7.0x will cause problems with your existing printconf-gui. Use the rpms from Red Hat.

3. Postscript-Fonts. True Type Fonts are supported as of 0.4.7 development versions.

4. It will run under most any window manager and does not require KDE. However, some drop and drag functionality will be lost without KDE.

## 2.3 Compilation and Installation

In order to compile and install Scribus on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Scribus distribution after uncompressing the downloaded package:

    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install (as root)

The executible for the program is located in /usr/local/bin. Documentation is located in usr/local/share/scribus/doc

Since Scribus uses autoconf, you should little difficulty compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at franz.schmid@altmuehlnet.de

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