Thanks Antonio.
I'm a little reluctant to start building from source as I have a nasty feeling keeping my system updated may end up taking up more time than actually using it... If the Ubuntu people aren't going to play ball on this - and I think that they should really be offering major releases or critical fixes only, not random beta versions - it'd be nice if you could add an Inkscape repository to your sources list and bypass Ubuntu for Inkscape. Obviously that would depend on whether the Inkscape servers could take the extra load. It's a pity there isn't some sort of combined bittorrent/repository system, where full software upgrades are available via peer to peer.
regards Paul Bolger
2009/11/28 Antonio Roberts <antonio@...2662...>:
The version in the Ubuntu repositories will eventually be updated, but there's no set date.
The other way to get the latest version is to build it from the source code. This page on the website gives you detailed instruction to do so http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu It may be a bit daunting for a new Linux user to build source code but it's easy once you get the hang of it
Ant
2009/11/27 Paul Bolger <pbolger@...155...>:
I'm relatively new to Linux and the repository system. I installed Inkscape via apt-get the day after the official release of 0.47, but the repository gave this: "Inkscape 0.47pre4 r22446, built Oct 14 2009".
How do I get the proper release version?
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