1.2.6 Scrivener for Linux Released (NOT LATEST)

Hi All,

This release is a slight improvement over 1.2.5. It main purpose is to address the annoying font hinting bug.

Items addressed in the 1.2.6 release:

1. Fixed Crashing RTFI inspector. It was completely removed with the last release. Now it is back in in working condition.
2. Font Hinting for new documents has been improved significantly.

You can find the archive package and the Debian installer here:

literatureandlatte.com/scriv … ner.tar.gz
literatureandlatte.com/scriv … 6-beta.deb

Tested on clean 10.10 32 bit Ubuntu.

Expires - 30th June 2013 – (Scrivener 1.2.6)

Tiho & Lee
P.S. Expect another update around Nov/Dec 2012 regardless with more features.

Doesn’t crash when you drag stuff and we get the Sci-fi translation. Awesome.

Whoops. Found a bug. Switching languages doesn’t really switch languages. (Under Options > General, tried both Science Fiction and Italian.)

Thank you for the fix. That part looks good. Unfortunately the incompatible qtlibrary problem with KDE on Kubuntu still exists.

RPM Version

Any update on the qt thing? I still can’t open Scrivener at all.

Woohoo!

I found something that worked. I took the lead from cellfourteen on page 3 of the thread on the 1.2.5 release. He mentioned running lsof while Scrivener was running (I saw it best when I was running Scrivener under Unity (I am on Ubuntu 12.04, but wanting to run under KDE)). It was wanting to access libQtDBus. And the only one available was the one from kde not from scrivener/lib.

So I found a version of 4.8.0 for libQt (libqt4-dbus_4.8.0-1ubuntu10+patches_i386.deb) from
launchpad.net/~francisbrwn9/+ar … ld/3280048

I then just used dpkg-deb --extract package directory_for_extraction

Then navigated up the tree, copied the 4.8.0 lib to the /usr/share/scrivener/lib, created a couple soft links as cellfourteen talked about and voila. It worked in KDE.

At least someone can run it. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work in OpenSuse.

Ok. I’m using Ubuntu 12.04. A downloaded the deb file and installed it. I went to Painel Inicial (Inicial Panel??? I don’t know the name in English) and found Scrivener in search. I click it, nothing happens.

Someone knows what am I doing wrong?

EDIT

Trying command line

alexandre@ubuntu:~$ Scrivener
/usr/bin/Scrivener: 2: /usr/bin/Scrivener: /usr/share/scrivener/bin/Scrivener: not found

I went to /usr/share/scrivener/bin and tried to run Scrivener. Nothing happens, but the file exists.

Does it start if you do “./Scrivener” within the Scrivener directory? Sounds like you need to edit your PATH.

Thank you for your answer. What happens is that:

alexandre@ubuntu:/usr/share/scrivener/bin$ dir
accessible graphicssystems phonon_backend scrhashsum
Aspell iconengines reportdmp Scrivener
bearer imageformats resources sqldrivers
codecs inputmethods rtfi Tutorial.scriv
alexandre@ubuntu:/usr/share/scrivener/bin$ ./Scrivener
bash: ./Scrivener: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado

The last line translates as “File or directory not found”

Funny thing. I installed a game (Limbo) and I saw “libqtsomething” beeing installed together. Now Scrivener runs normally.

Limbo’s a good game. (I also test for Humble Bundle.)

Cooooooooool

I uninstalled Limbo and ran “sudo apt-get autoremove”. A lot of the pachages from Limbo install were gone, but Scrivener still runs normally.

As I don’t have a list of all packages that Limbro required, I am unable to find out what exactly was that fixed Scrivener.

It could’ve very well been some sort of path or library path variable being tweaked, or it could’ve run ld.so.conf or something to add new library paths.

Hey cool. Just noticed you can import mp3s and video files now.

garpu, you are right.

I made a clean Kubuntu install and tried a lot of sh and bin files (mainly from HIB ) and none of them worked, with the same error. All of them worked fine after I installed Limbo.

The script in the other thread is working for me now. Though it can’t find the templates but I hardly use them anyway.

“sudo apt-get install ia32-libs” solves this problem.

Thank you very much!

Thank you, lemke0.

When Scrivener is offered for sale to Linux users, I will gladly pay. I have bought Apple and Windows versions.

Rockin’, thanks. Two minor things that are–for practical purposes–non-issues, but that you might want to be aware of, are that when installing over 1.2.5, it still says, “Same version is installed,” indicating that the internal version number in the .deb file is still 1.2.5, and that the expiration date still shows as July 31, 2012.

Again, not that either has any practical effect–Just thought you’d want to know.