I downloaded the stable tarball to my Slackware system and immediately ran into compile problems. So on a hunch I downloaded Inkscape-current and it compiled like a champ.
I had previously downloaded/installed the Freerock gnome package. Slack no longer contains Gnome.
BTW it still doesn't work: --------------------------------------- *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0865ebc0 ***
Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. -----------------------------------------
I am thinking of adding another partition just to get a working Inkscape. Is there a Linux distro that comes with Inkscape?