Catching up with the times
For many years now, the development version of Scribus has been the one that most people will recommend you to use.
The current development version is said to be on its way to become the new stable version 1.6 but it will probably take some time before a new stable version gets released.
Scribus1.5.8 for Windows
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Windows 64 Bit (Vista, 7, 8, 10)
Other options:
Windows 32 Bit (2000 SP4, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
Portable Scribus
Latest development snapshot:
Scribus1.5.9svn Snapshots on Sourceforge (download the latest .exe file)
Some features of Scribus require Ghostscript to be installed:
Ghostscript
Scribus1.5.8 for MacOS
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Mac OS X 10.15 or higher
Mac OS X 10.15 or higher (with Python 3)
Mac OS X 10.13 and Mac OS X 10.14
Latest development snapshot:
Scribus1.5.9svn Snapshots on Sourceforge (download the latest .dmg file)
Some features of Scribus require Ghostscript to be installed:
Ghostscript
Scribus1.5.8 for Linux
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Appimage (64 bit).
In some distributions, Scribus1.5.8 (or1.5.9svn) can be obtained from your package manager as "scribus-ng".
In some distributions, Scribus1.5.8 is packaged as "scribus" and there is no stable version:
- more recent Debian and Ubuntu releases,
- Gentoo,
- Arch.
For Ubuntu a PPA is available. The latest development release is called scribus-ng.
For the documentation, you will probably need to activate the "Non Free" Repository.
The 10+ years old stable Scribus
Scribus 1.4.8 is the latest stable release.
It's more than 10 years old and you should probably not install or use it anymore. It's also the last one in the 1.4.x series.
To download it, choose one of the options below…
You can get and compile yourself 1.4.9svn but there is no plan to ever release 1.4.9.
If you need anything that is not in 1.4.x you're welcome to try and use the development version 1.5.x until the next stable 1.6 is released.
Scribus 1.4.8 for Windows
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Windows 64 Bit (Vista, 7, 8, 10)
Other options:
Windows 32 Bit (2000 SP4, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
Portable Scribus (Windows 32 Bit) (currently, still packages 1.4.7)
Some features of Scribus require Ghostscript to be installed:
Ghostscript
Scribus 1.4.8 for MacOS
Scribus 1.4.8 is a 32 bit application. With MacOs Catalina and newer you will need a development version of Scribus (1.5.5 or newer)
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Mac OS X Lion (10.8.x) or higher
Further install options:
Homebrew Cask instructions (Leopard (10.5) or higher
Some features of Scribus require Ghostscript to be installed:
Ghostscript
Scribus 1.4.8 for Linux
In most distributions, Scribus 1.4.8 can be obtained from the official repositories and is named "scribus".
Packages are are known to exist for:
- Debian, Ubuntu (.deb)
- CentOS, Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SUSE and OpenSUSE (.rpm:)
- Gentoo
- FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
If you want to also get the documentation, you will probably need to activate the "Non Free" Repository and look for the "scribus-doc" package.
Some "bleeding edge" distribution only package the development version. If you don't feel comfortable with using it, you need to compile Scribus.
More
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OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation (Scribus 1.4.5 is the latest available version)
Nightly Development Versions
We provide nightly snapshots that are based on the current code.
Most of the time, development snapshots are of high quality and older features shold be as robust as in the stable version: but be careful when using new features!
Uasge of unstable versions for other goals than testing is at your own risk.
Unstable developer snapshots can corrupt files of stable versions and can make them unusable.
Nightly Scribus 1.5.x for Linux
Normally, we are producing nightly builds of the Scribus main branch but, currently, the newest Scribus code cannot easily be built on Linux: The team decided to start the migration of Scribus Qt 6 and there are no Qt 6 packages available for Debian or Ubuntu, yet.
For the near feature we will track the development of the 1.5.x branch and then next stable version 1.6 which should be the next release.
A Gitlab Continous Integration Job produces an Appimage each time the developers push a new commit:
The Gitlab Continous Integration Job for the main branch is still being synced but the creation of the AppImage fails:
For Ubuntu a PPA is available. The nightly build is called scribus-trunk.
The source code
Scribus being Open Source, you're very welcome to download, study, and modify its source code.
Scribus Source Code
Current Scribus Code from the official SVN server:
svn svn co svn://scribus.net/trunk/Scribus scribus
Current Scribus Code from the community maintained Gitlab mirror
git clone https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus.git
Current Scribus Code from the community maintained Github mirror
git clone https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus.git
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Scribus 1.4.8 tarball
Scribus1.5.8 tarball
The Scribus Community