Hi Lee,
Would you mind putting this information about installing for Debian into the Inkscape wiki? Even if it's not 100% accurate I think it will help people trying to get it set up.
Thanks, Bryce
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:13:53PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
On Saturday 30 July 2005 00:57, John Taber wrote:
I'm aware of the gcc issues but I thought it was mentioned that .42 was available in Debian unstable but I dont' see it there (latest 0.41-5). Any word? If it's not going to be there for a while, what is the best alternative, autopackage ?
I would recommend just building from source, since the source packages include debian build files.
Installation will be *similar to* the following, but I forget the filename of the source package, and the directory name that is extracted, so I'm just making that up :)
apt-get build-dep inkscape
mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp
tar xvzf inkscape-0.42.tar.gz cd inkscape-0.42
Then:
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
If this gives any errors about missing dependancies, just install them with apt-get install.
Finally, when it has built successfully, you should find the debian file in the parent directory:
cd .. dpkg -i inkscape*.deb rm -rf inkscape*
The advantage here is that you're installing an almost-official debian package, and it should be no problem to upgrade to the next version in debian itself, once that becomes available.
-- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com