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.:
Then go into the downloaded and unpacked CVS directory:
and run: (It's needed only for CVS)
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:
Then it's time for the classic:
When it's done, you can run the new Scribus by ~/scribus_cvs/bin/scribus