FC3 was released in November 2004 and in January 2006 was transfered to Fedora Legacy, entering in maintenance mode, where only security and critical bug fixes are expected. Sad but true, is expected to have problems running bleeding edge software on it. On a related note, RHEL 4 is based on FC3, and neither on it one can't install Inkscape 0.44 (it may be possible to install 0.44.1)
Thanks for the info. I am mostly aware of this, and that is why I am on this line of enquiry.
If a static version (which would be what goes into the autopackage + some extra stuff, seems like libpng and libstdc++) could go into a tar.gz - perhaps inscape would run on my old dog of a distro.
Perhaps I'm not alone in this need? Not everyone can keep pace with the 6 monthly releases you know!
Donn.