Ted Gould wrote: 
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 00:30 +0200, Mihaela wrote:
  
How can I have multiple inkscape versions on the same machine (im on 
fedora8) and can you choose if those use the same or their own profiles?
    

Probably the best way is to install them to a different prefix.  For
instance, I keep a stable version "installed" on my machine.  To get a
new dev version I do this:

  $ vcs co http://blah/ inkscape
  $ cd inkscape
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ ../configure --prefix=`pwd`/../install
  $ make install

You can then execute the dev version with:

  $ <check out dir>/install/bin/inkscape

It will continue to use the same preferences files.

		--Ted
Thank you everyone for your input, especially Ted, I chose your method and it all seems to be working great, I have the official 0.46 installed through a repository, and then I compiled a dev version using your instructions. Here's what I did:

1. made a directory where I intend to keep all the dev versions, I named it inkscape and put in /root/
2. I downloaded a source snapshot and unzipped it in the above mentioned dir (/root/inkscape/). It created a dir with a version number in it (/root/inkscape/inkscape-18933/).
3. entered the dir with the version number and did ./autogen.sh (intltool was missing from my system so I had to install it)
4. followed the rest of the commands

I can now launch the dev version from /root/inkscape/inkscape-18933/install/bin/inkscape

I plan to add all the new dev versions in /root/inkscape/ using the same method and I hope it will all work without interfering

Im curious, what do autogen.sh and prefix='pwd' do? Is using vcs different from downloading source snapshots?