It might also be worth upgrading your version of Ubuntu, or setting up
a VM with 18.04 (which is the current LTS version). This is so you can
see problems users are likely to face with completely updated
software.

My 2p.
-C

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Antonio Ospite <ao2@...3619...> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:50:25 +0200
> Andrea Bogazzi <andreabogazzi79@...400...> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to start my contribution adventure but i hanged at finding the
>> package inkscape-devel on ubuntu xenial.
>>
>> The package is not available on my dist
>>
>> What i m doing wrong? any hint?
>
> I don't think there is an inkscape-devel package.
>
> On Debian based distros you can bring in compilation dependencies with:
>
>         apt-get build-dep inkscape
>
> However you need deb-src sources for that to work, as explained in
> another recent thread.
>
> See also here about how to set up deb-src sources:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/496549/error-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list
>
> Ciao,
>    Antonio
>
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