Hello, sorry to post this again, but perhaps it's not been noticed.
If this is the wrong place to ask questions like this, please point me in the right direction. It's so frustrating not to be able to keep up with the latest stable releases of inkscape.
I got one reply about compiling the latest svn or 0.44.1, but I would much rather just get 0.44 working without compiling anything. It just strikes me as wrong that inkscape 0.44 will run fine on Windows but not on Linux!
SYSTEM: Fedora Core 3 : 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 Machine : AMD i386, 1gig RAM, loads of drive space.
PROBLEM: Cannot run Inkscape 0.44
Yum repo only has 0.43 - usually DAG. It appears he tried to compile 0.44 and had some problems. So, no yum update for me (or any FC3 users)
Tried the Autopackage from the inkscape download page. It works in that it installs without overt error. Problem comes when trying to run inkscape: inkscape: /usr/bin/../lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by inkscape) inkscape: /usr/bin/../lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.4' not found (required by inkscape)
My system has those two exact filenames (libpng12.so.0 and libstdc++.so.6) so a fake link technique is not going to work.
I then tried to compile it. Harsh dependency errors. I don't have the time to go through the spin-cycle of sub-sub-sub compiles and yums to do that!
So, I am in a fix. No Inkscape and not much hope!
Any ideas?
EXTRA QUESTION: Is there some way to put a complete, runnable Inkscape into a single tar.gz file like they do with Thunderbird and Firefox? I have never struggled to install the latest versions of those two apps. Sure, they take forever to reach a yum distro, but at least I can go fetch the tar file and get on with my life! Inkscape 0.44 even works on my Windows, but it does not work on Linux! There's a terrible irony here somewhere...
Thanks, Donn.
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