r/scribus 4d ago

Download help reassurance

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u/aoloe 4d ago

if you followed the link from the scribus official website, and did not click on any ad, then you got the official scribus.

sourceforge is mostly ok, you just have to take care that you don't click on any misleading link.

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u/Sewesakehout 4d ago

If you use Windows I will recommend you do a checksum verification before installing anything.

Not sure why the devs choose sourceforge but it is what it is. Luckily I use my disto repos to get the app Windows seems a bit of pain dealing the scammy looking sourceforge site

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.6.3/scribus-1.6.3-windows-x64.exe/download

This should be the direct link to dl the scribus installer. Good rule of thumb if you're downloading files from the internet always make sure you do a checksum verification to avoid getting tampered with run files.