Mihaela wrote:
stuart wrote:
Mihaela wrote:
How can I have multiple inkscape versions on the same machine (im on fedora8) and can you choose if those use the same or their own profiles?
All just guesses but...
- Call them by different names or put them in different places.
However if they use different versions of the same libs - well, that's up to you how messy you want to make you system.
I just checked my inkscape: $ inkscape --version Inkscape 0.45.1 (Mar 21 2007) $ ldd /usr/bin/inkscape | wc 76 301 4294 ...wow, inkscape is linking into about 76 different libs! Good luck at trying to support older versions!
The versions I want aren't so far apart, I want official 0.46 and a new dev build, maybe one more dev build if possible.
I tried compiling with "make" from a different folder (if I use make install everything will go in the official place and replace my current version right?) but some features are missing (i get warnings when running that version), I think it might be python related features.
What do you mean "call them by different names"?
I see... well, I'm only going to make suggestions. I don't build inkscape and it would probably take hours to go to somewhere like this: http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/?M=D to download, build and report back how exactly to build multiple versions - if it's possible.
The first thing you might try is to see if the inkscape tar'ed up source package uses "configure". If it does, and it is written well, there will probably be some options as to were the application can be installed. Pick something different for each version. Something like /usr/local/bin/inkscape_45/ and /usr/local/bin/inkscape_46/. Then to execute inkscape you would type /usr/local/bin/inkscape_45/inkscape or /usr/local/bin/inscape_46/inkscape. Remember, these are just off the wall suggestions (i.e. it's kind-of like getting a sheet of balsa wood and vague instructions on making a toy air plane).
Can anyone else help out?
B.T.W. If you are running fedora 8 did you know you should be able to install inkscape 0.46 binaries w/just 1 command:
yum install inkscape