Hello, I'm having problems trying to RPM &/or compile inkscape in Yoper linux. I have a thread going on the Yoper site here: http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928
1) I tried the Redhat 0.39 RPM (using KPackage), & got Failed dependencies: libsigc-1.2.so.5 I compiled that lib sucessfully & put copies in several directories, but still got the same error in KPackage.
2) tried Suse RPM, & got Failed dependencies: libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0 libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 libsigc-1.2.so.5
3) tried a CVS tarball a few days ago, couldn't build a RPM or compile, due to lack of a makefile. Tried to build the makefile but that failed.
4) tried to compile from the source the stable 0.39, got as far as this step: http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928&view=findpost&p...
Please help out if you can, a RPM would be great to share with others, but I want to at least get inkscape working on my harddrive!
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tom b wrote:
Hello, I'm having problems trying to RPM &/or compile inkscape in Yoper linux. I have a thread going on the Yoper site here: http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928
- I tried the Redhat 0.39 RPM (using KPackage), & got
Failed dependencies: libsigc-1.2.so.5 I compiled that lib sucessfully & put copies in several directories, but still got the same error in KPackage.
well for the rpm in redhat it is normal that inkscape rpm still do not install because of the lack of libsigc, even if you compiled it from source. the rpm system of management knows that there is no libsigc rpm so.... ^^^^ A possibility would be to rpm -i --force or maybe more clever --nodeps (check the proper syntax with rpm --help) : the aims is to perform and installation without checking for dependancy (because you make AND make install libsigc). But inkscape will work only if it is the ONLY dependancy missing AND the libsigc-1.2.so.5 in the proper folder [ /usr/lib ]on my redhat9 if after the make and make install it is not called libsigc-1.2.so.5 [ or something like libsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 you can link libsigc-1.2.so.5 -> libsigc-1.2.so.5.0.5 by a `ln -s `
Hope this help...I'm much more like newb-nix-usr
hervé
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, herve couvelard wrote:
tom b wrote:
Hello, I'm having problems trying to RPM &/or compile inkscape in Yoper linux. I have a thread going on the Yoper site here: http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928
Interesting. I've never heard of Yoper. :-)
By the way, there's a page in the Inkscape wiki for posting details about compiling on different platforms, and once you've got it sorted out, you might find it worthwhile to post your notes there:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingInkscape
No details so far about Yoper, but sometimes a problem (and it's solution) affect other distros, so it might be worth a review.
- I tried the Redhat 0.39 RPM (using KPackage), & got
Failed dependencies: libsigc-1.2.so.5 I compiled that lib sucessfully & put copies in several directories, but still got the same error in KPackage.
well for the rpm in redhat it is normal that inkscape rpm still do not install because of the lack of libsigc, even if you compiled it from source. the rpm system of management knows that there is no libsigc rpm so.... ^^^^
*Nod* Once you do a compile-from-source on one of the dependencies, the inkscape rpm route is not feasible. Ideally, you should locate a libsigc-1.2 rpm package that will install on your distro. Sometimes that isn't possible, though. The options for you at this point are to create your own rpm of libsigc (not a big deal if you've made rpm's before, but a daunting task if you're an rpm-newbie), do an rpm --force --nodeps and pray, or compile Inkscape from source as well.
I usually always opt for the latter option when I hit this point, since that means I can also pull from CVS directly and compile the latest and greatest anyway. :-)
You can also try the autopackage version of Inkscape; that seems to work for some people sometimes, but is a non-rpm approach.
Bryce
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:40:01 -0700, tom b wrote:
Hello, I'm having problems trying to RPM &/or compile inkscape in Yoper linux. I have a thread going on the Yoper site here: http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928
As Bryce said, there is an autopackage you can use here:
http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/0.39/inkscape-0.39.package
Alternatively if you want the bleeding edge of Inkscape development try this:
http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.40cvs.package
it's not really that bleeding, I was using it the other day and it was working well. The star randomization feature is cool.
They're executable shell scripts, so just mark them executable and run them.
Like Bryce said, they aren't 100% reliable yet as it's beta software and we're still shaking out the bugs. But it seems to work far more often than it fails, there have been over 6500 downloads of it and only a few problem reports. So either nobody bothers to report failures, or it usually works.
Anyway, might be worth a shot.
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