It's in the repo https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/1.4.6+dfsg-4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/1.4.6+dfsg-4 so your scenario should wor

It's in the repo https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/1.4.6+dfsg-4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/1.4.6+dfsg-4 so your scenario should work. In comparison arch: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/scribus/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/scribus/ Fedora: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/scribus https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/scribus IIRC you have to enable multiverse repos in Ubuntu manually (doable with the GUI or somewhere in settings). 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop :P.