Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Friday 13 April 2007 17:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:25, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> >>>> Greetings;
> >>>>
> >>>> I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker.
> >>>>
> >>>> I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported
> >>>> the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything
> >>>> from them for several days.
> >>>
> >>> Are you using the old scribus package or the new scribus package
> >>> (scribus-ng, IIRC)?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> -Roberto
> >>
> >> Makes no difference. Both versions get a floating point exception
> >> at startup.
> >
> > what platform are you running on (hw and sw).  I have been running
> > first scribus and recently scribus-ng for several years and I have
> > never seen the kind of error you describe.  Also which debian dist
> > are you running?
> >
> > David
>
> I am running a P4 2+ GHz on an Intel mobo. Recently installed Sarge then
> upgraded to etch just before it went stable. did an upgrade just after
> that to make sure that everything was up to date. I don't think I have
> anything installed that didn't come from debian.org via either aptitude
> or apt-get.
>
> Thanks.
if you do an:-

ldd /usr/bin/scribus-ng

are any of the libraries unresolved or pointing at local copies rather than
distributed copies?

David