Re: [Inkscape-devel] Packaging of bitmap downscaling fix

2013/9/25 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...>:

I've posted to my ppa packages (for Ubuntu 12.04) of newer pixman and cairo with the downscaling fix, and a inkscape-trunk package built against these.

https://launchpad.net/~bryce/+archive/backports/+packages

[Installation for Ubuntu 12.04]

1. sudo apt-add repository ppa:bryce/backports
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install inkscape-trunk # This will also pull in and install newer cairo and pixman
4. /usr/bin/inkscape

The first command should be: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bryce/backports

Step #3 should be unnecessary but I notice the inkscape-trunk package installs to /usr/bin/inkscape, so probably clobbers the distro-provided inkscape. Not a big deal; reinstalling it should fix any of that.

As far as I know, in this case dpkg will refuse to install the conflicting file and package instalation will fail.

Regards, Krzysztof