Compiling and Installing Scribus 1.6+ on Mac OS X

This document outlines the build process for Scribus 1.4 or higher from SVN on Mac OS X. This does not currently outline the process for packaging and bundling Scribus (yet).

What you need:

Building and Installing

Steps to build and install Scribus 1.6 on mac OS

Install a few ports from MacPorts. Any other required dependencies will be installed automatically if they are not already. If you have already installed MacPorts for other software, then you should run sudo port selfupdate and sudo port upgrade installed in order that the newest versions of your current ports and libraries are installed.

Check out Scribus from SVN

Now you can run Scribus 1.4 on OS X if all has gone well.