Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running

BIG FAT WARNING: Scribus users on Ubuntu/Kubuntu Dapper Drake will experience difficulties while changing values in real number spinboxes. This is a long standing bug which has been reported to both Ubuntu and Scribus bug tracker. As long as there is no real solution, you can use the following easy workaround: echo "export LC_ALL=C" >> ~/.bash_profile

Requirements:
Operating System:	Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux
Scribus Version:	1.2.* and 1.3.*
DTP skills:	novice
OS skills:	novice

Introduction

Currently there are following Scribus-related packages for Ubuntu/Kubuntu:

• scribus – Scribus 1.2.x
• scribus-ng – Scribus 1.3.x. scribus-ng package can be installed paralelly to the scribus package
• scribus-template – developer and user-contributed additional templates
• scribus-doc – Scribus 1.2.x documentation, which has to be provided as a separate package due to its non-free nature by the Debian Free Software Guidelines
• scribus-ng-doc – Scribus 1.3.x documentation, which has to be provided as a separate package due to its non-free nature by the Debian Free Software Guidelines
• icc-profiles – a collection of common ICC profiles to use with Scribus and other color profile-aware software
• lprof – hardware color profiler that can be used to create color profiles for your hardware to be used with Scribus

Extending Ubuntu/Kubuntu repositories

Note that Ubuntu Breezy packages can be also used for Ubuntu "Dapper" branch.

# debian.scribus.net - Primary repository
deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian breezy main restricted
deb-src http://debian.scribus.net/debian breezy main restricted

# debian.tagancha.org - Backup repository
deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian breezy main restricted
deb-src http://debian.tagancha.org/debian breezy main restricted

Using cryptographic repository signatures

Our repositories are cryptographically signed for added security. Add the gpg-keys for our repositories to avoid having to confirm your installation choice to the package manager each time you update a scribus or scribus-cvs package.

root$ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys DA286F326C5F196B
root$ gpg --armor --export DA286F326C5F196B | apt-key add - 

or as a normal user (with an appropriate entry for apt-key in the sudoers file):

user$ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys DA286F326C5F196B
user$ gpg --armor --export DA286F326C5F196B | sudo apt-key add -

Final installation step

Once you added the relevant sources lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list you can run

aptitude install scribus scribus-cvs

or

apt-get install scribus scribus-cvs

in a root terminal or use your favorite graphical apt-get front-end such as synaptic or aptitude. Don't forget to "Reload Package List" in the synaptic. It's the equivalent of "apt-get (or aptitude) update" and has to be done to make new packages from our repositories available to your package management tools.