## How to install more than one version of Scribus on one computer

Imagine a situation when you have one Scribus already installed. It's likely possible because of Scribus quality, usability and presence in a wide amount of distributions :)

And then the day came. The day you read about the magnificent feature implemented in CVS. You really want to try it but you're afraid of the possible problems with untested code etc, so you don't want to replace your stable installed package.

Assume a situation when you've got Scribus installed from your favorite distro (rpm, deb etc. depending on distro) or installed from sources (tar.gz usually into `/usr/local`) and you have a freshly downloaded CVS snapshot. The following operations are made by a normal user not as `root`.

Create a directory where you want the new Scribus located (in your favourite filemanager) e.g.:

>     mkdir ~/scribus_svn

Then go into the downloaded and unpacked CVS directory:

>     cd ~/Scribus

and run: (It's needed only for CVS)

>     make -f Makefile.svn

And now the important task. You have to specify the target where CVS Scribus to install not to replace the distribution's release or standard installed tar.gz package:

>     $./configure --prefix=/home/yourusername/scribus_svn

Then it's time for the classic:

>     make
>     make install

When it's done, you can run the new Scribus by `~/scribus_svn/bin/scribus`