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Compiling Scribus from Source
Pre-reqs: subversion package needs to be installed
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Create a directory to install Scribus in to
mkdir /home/username/scribus-test/Scribus -
Move in to said directory
cd /home/username/scribus-test/Scribus -
Download latest code
svn co svn://scribus.net/trunk/Scribus
Result: you should see many files being downloaded in your terminal and when it's finished there will be a directory named 'Scribus' present.
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Create a directory to install Scribus in to
mkdir /home/username/scribus-test/Scribus -
Move in to said directory
cd /home/username/scribus-test/Scribus -
Download latest code
git clone https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus.git
Result: git will download the scribusproject repo and when it's finished there will be a directory named 'Scribus' present.
One of the advantages of CMake is that you can do an out-of-source build. What is this? It enables you to build the application without writing anything at all to the directory where the Scribus source is. This means your source tree is clean, always. Its easier and faster to update, and you can build multiple targets out-of-source from the same source tree. Cool!
To do an out-of-source build, you need a new directory to build in. Say you have the source files in:
/home/username/scribus-test/Scribus
Make the following directory:
/home/username/scribus-test/bin
So then, instead of doing the following within /home/username/scribus-test/Scribus:
cmake .
you would then change to the /home/username/scribus-test/bin directory and run:
cmake ../Scribus -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/username/scribus-test/bin/
then you can compile Scribus by typing:
make
Optional: if you have a multi-core machine you can specify make to utilize more than 1 core. For example, on a 4 core machine you can use the -j flag followed by the number of cores you wish to use:
make -j4
After the compilation is complete you can install scribus binary in to the bin/ directory by typing:
make install
To run this version of scribus you can then type:
./scribus/scribus