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Requirements

The programs you will need to compile Scribus are:

  1. For Scribus 1.1.2+ GCC 3.x+ is required, GCC 3.2+ is strongly recommended. The Scribus Team has tested compiling with GCC 3.4 and recommends its use, if available, for the performance benefits.
  2. autoconf 2.53+
  3. automake 1.6.3+
The dependencies for compilation, and also to run Scribus are:
  1. Qt 3.0.5+, both the runtime libraries and development libraries, we strongly recommend using Qt 3.3.2+.
  2. Python and python-devel libraries 2.1+.
  3. Freetype2 2.1.3+.
  4. libart_lgpl 2.3.10+, 2.3.16+ recommended.
  5. libxml 2.6+.
  6. Ghostscript > 6.53+. GNU Ghostscript 7.07+ or AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 is highly recommended.
  7. Postscript-Fonts. TrueType Fonts. Scribus also can support OpenType fonts both TrueType and Type 1 Outline OpenType Fonts in 1.1.1+.

Scribus will run under most any window manager and does not require KDE itself. However, drag and drop functionality will be lost without KDE. One of the Scribus developers runs Gnome. The author of this documentation has made a point of testing each release of Scribus under Blackbox as well. This has shown no incompatibilities or problems for Scribus, except for the loss of drag and drop functionality.

If color management does not work, you may not have installed the development libraries for littlecms. When downloading the package from littlecms the make files are already configured for Linux, so compiling is straight forward. You also need at least one RGB profile and one CMYK profile installed or the color preferences and options will not appear in the menus. On Red Hat and Mandrake 9.x you may have to type export LDFLAGS="-lm", just before compiling or littlecms may not link correctly to Scribus. This issue has been fixed in littlecms 1.10 and in Scribus 1.2

Testing suggests setting the correct "-march=" CXXFLAGS has a very benefitial effect on Scribus performance. For example, if you have a Duron or Athlon processor, using export CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon" would be of benefit. Check if your distribution sets these for you and how they are set, and for further information see: 

man gcc
for detailed options

Optionally: