Fedora Core - Troubleshooting

This article is part of the Tips & Tricks series.

Installation • Usage • PDF issues • Other

As of this writing (5 November 2006), FC6 has just recently been released, and some Scribus-related issues are present. The first thing you must do, of course, is to recompile Scribus under FC6. Alternatively, there is a much more up-to-date RPM (1.3.3.4) as part of the repository -- just 'yum install scribus'.

Printing

Printing directly from Scribus may be broken, if you use the same method and settings from FC5. It seems to generate an error message and no output.

The fix for this is to check the box for Alternative Printing Command then in the Command text box enter

lp -dname-of-your-printer

For example, for my printer named "laser", I entered

lp -dlaser

Adobe Reader

If you use either the tar.gz or .rpm files for Adobe Reader 7.08, it will not work. The fix for this is to open /usr/bin/acroread as root (or with sudo) into a text editor (this will be a link to the "real" file, but nonetheless you will be editing the real one). There are two lines that need to be edited.

Look for this line, at about line number 418:

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

and change to:

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Note: you are adding an asterix in about the middle

The other line is at about line number 643:

MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"

which needs to be changed to:

MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"

Save the file, and you're done.