On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:30:27AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:25:09AM -0500, 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. > >> > >If you could provide the session showing the error message, we could > >help more. I use 'script' to do this sometimes. Describing or > >paraphrasing an error message is less helpful then actually seeing the > >exact output. > >-K > > > No big mystery there. "Session" follows > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 > GNU/Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help > Floating point exception > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I just googled 'scribus floating point exception' and found your bug report in the scribus bts. My guess is that they know a bit more than us about how to fix this issue. We will only ask the same question from you (backtrace, ldd, etc.). It maybe a corupt dependency, so reinstalling all those may fix it. That worked for me once. 'apt-cache depends scribus|grep Depends' will show this.
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