Download latest Scribus code

Downloading from Scribus SVN (svn mirror)

Pre-reqs: subversion package needs to be installed

• 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.

Downloading from Github

• 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.

Out of source builds

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