On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:00:39 -0400 hendrik@...2611... wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:45:46PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
Well, Debian package manager uses .deb fies instead of .rpm files, but looking at the packages site just now, the 46 Inkscape is definitely available as part of Debian.
I was going to mention that - you beat me to it :)