I had a spare Mandrake 9.0 box and had a shot at using autopackage on it, since I'd not run autopackage on it before, and that only has Inkscape 0.35 installed on it:
.... 00%[=========================================>] 370,830 129.66K/s ETA 00:00
12:53:11 (129.66 KB/s) - `autopackage-0.5.1.tar.bz2' saved [370830/370830]
Download completed. .......................... autopackage/libexec/autosu-gtk: relocation error: autopackage/libexec/autosu-gtk: undefined symbol: g_str_has_prefix /home/bryce/tmp121441735/meta/@inkscape.org/inkscape:0.39cvs/apkg-downloader: line 437: return: : numeric argument required The autopackage support code could not be installed.
It can be manually downloaded and installed by running the installation script located in the downloaded archive.
{brimstone} ~ (10): umask 77
{brimstone} ~ (12): rpm -qa | grep gtk libgtkmm1.2-1.2.9-3mdk libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-29mdk libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.0.6-8mdk libgtk+2.0_0-2.0.6-8mdk libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.0.6-8mdk gtk-engines-0.12-3mdk gtk+mdk-0.1.6-12mdk gtkhtml-1.0.4-4mdk nautilus-gtkhtml-0.3.2-4mdk gtk-themes-1.0-9mdk libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-29mdk libgtkhtml20-1.0.4-4mdk libgtkhtml2_0-2.0.1-1mdk libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-devel-2.0.6-8mdk libgtkmm1.2-devel-1.2.9-3mdk libgtk+mdk0.1_6-0.1.6-12mdk libgtkglarea5-devel-1.2.3-4mdk gtk+2.0-2.0.6-8mdk libgtk+mdk0.1_6-devel-0.1.6-12mdk gtk-engines2-1.9.0-13mdk gtkdialogs-1.2-3mdk libgtkxmhtml1-1.4.2-1mdk pygtk-0.6.9-3mdk libgtkglarea5-1.2.3-4mdk
{brimstone} ~ (14): rpm -qa | grep inkscape inkscape-0.35-0 {brimstone} ~ (15): xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect