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
