Hi all,
Peter 'Cafuego' Lieverdink has patched a compiler bug that was preventing Inkscape for building for older Ubuntu versions.
https://launchpad.net/~cafuego/+archive/inkscape
From the notes:
PPA description This PPA contains daily automated Inkscape builds. These builds are generated directly from the Inkscape trunk on Launchpad and may contain bugs. Use this PPA to test Inkscape. If you need a stable version, please install Inkscape from the main Ubuntu repositories.
Changes to the Inkscape source trigger a compiler bug on the i386 version of Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid") and 10.10 ("Maverick"), so Lucid and Maverick packages in this repository are built with a patched C compiler.
Note that recent changes to Inkscape mean that the latest version can no longer be built on an unmodified 10.04 LTS ("Lucid") system. This PPA now contains backported versions of the pixman and cairo packages, which are required to run Inkscape trunk on Lucid. Please be aware that these system libraries will be installed from this PPA and that these versions have not been extensively tested with other Ubuntu applications that might use them.
On Lucid, xulrunner-1.9 conflicts with this PPA.
To see the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/885280
cheers Donna