On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 13:04 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
I don't know what distro is best but I'm running Ubuntu on a PowerPC. I have compiled Inkscape before but I haven't tried it since I upgraded.
First, for a Debian/Ubuntu distro, you need to install the 'build-essential' (Note, no 's'). Also you may want to install the manpages-dev.
To compile Inkscape, you need to install the development versions of the libraries. Your system have already have the non-development ones. The development version is the same but '-dev' has been added to the end of its name.
The libraries should be listed in the README but last time I tried I discovered some where missing. (I think this has been corrected but see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/199595 )
Hope this helps.