stuseven wrote:
Hi and thanks for your quick reply.
Yes - in the past week I have tried every new linux version of the new Inkscape I could find... but, with the autopackage, I had the same problems as the compile version... it complains of not having newer libraries or similar.
1) apt-get install alien
2) Get the RPM version of Inkscape and use 'alien' to install it.
3) Once installed, run "ldd inkscape" and then install any libraries it says it can't find
4) Then inkscape should just run (try it from the command line first to make sure you catch error-messages if it doesn't)
I had to install two libs, but I can't remember the names. Remember you can just paste the library name after "apt-cache search " and it'll find the correct package name, though they are also pretty easy to guess. Obviously, you may have to install more or fewer libraries than I did.
This worked for me (also running Debian Sarge, although my system is a bit mixed-version by now).
There is currently some kind of package conflict with one of the build-deps for Inkscape, which makes the autopackage or source installation impossible without doing further source installations on (apparently) any current Debian distribution.
I'm sure they'll eventually sort that out, but I wanted to try it out now, and this is the fastest way.
Cheers, Terry