I wrote this reply a week ago, but then when I checked the edge snap was broken. It works now. It needed a newer GTKmm than what was in Ubuntu 16.04. Not a big deal, but that turned out to be a bigger fix than I expected. Still needs some fixes, but I can use it now. It also works on Wayland.
On 01/02/2018 11:27 PM, Maren Hachmann wrote:
And for Linux:
(same as for macOS, only select inkscape:linux artifacts, or:)
- use Ubuntu/Ubuntu derivative on your system
- visit https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev
- Select if you want the stable branch (stable daily 0.92.x) or the
master branch (trunk daily) 4. Add ppa as per instructions on the page 5. run: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install inkscape
For other Linux distributions and for Ubuntu as well there is a per-commit (roughly, depends on LP syncing before the next commit) Snap build.
$ sudo snap install --edge inkscape
Or if you already have it installed:
$ sudo snap refresh --edge inkscape
You can then go back to stable with the same command:
$ sudo snap refresh --stable inkscape
Overall keeping up-to-date on that should be smaller than the updates on the deb side as they're compressed binary diffs. I haven't measured it though.
Ted