Ahh. Well, I didn't get your message in time so I downloaded the numPY (numeric python) tarball and compiled it from source. It compiled without any errors. I got the original error to go away but now I get a new error. Too difficult to explain so I made a quick screen cast of the error.
This error doesn't exist in the Windows version because the perspective effect is not available.
Check out http://misc/heathenx.org/inkscape_error.html
heathenx
Donn wrote the following on 2/21/2007 2:03 AM:
I am getting an error dialog on my openSUSE 10.2 desktop when trying to use the perspective effect in Inkscape v0.45. (kde)
As far as I know, this is a known error. You should find the python module called "numpy" and install it into the python that came with inkscape. I have done neither, so I can't give specifics.
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