John,
Installing on Slackware 12.1 worked ok for me. I needed to install the GC garbage collector from here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc.tar.gz
Then I ran the Inkscape configure script: ./configure without any additional options. Then make, and make install.
I did that after installing Gnumeric which needed 2 preliminary items installing.
goffice-0.6.4.tar.bz2 intltool-0.40.0.tar.bz2 gnumeric-1.8.3.tar.bz2 - install with ./configure, no additional options.
I wonder if these Gnumeric things supplied anything needed by Inkscape? I'm not sure.
Inkscape and Gnumeric are essentials that I really miss now Slackware has dropped Gnome - fortunately it wasn't too difficult to install them.
David.
heathenx-2 wrote:
John Culleton wrote the following on 7/18/2008 3:14 PM:
On Friday 18 July 2008 01:08:24 pm Aaron Spike wrote:
John Culleton wrote:
My question is, does Inkscape 46 download painlessly to Win XP or is it one of those kludges where you have to download this to compile that to support something else? I am looking for the easiest path to a fully functioning IS 46.
Inkscape on win32 (for many releases now) has been a single downloadable zip or installer package with everything you need to run. There are also packages built from SVN trunk on a daily (or nearly daily) basis. I usually have both installed so that I can work in the stable build and test all the new fancy features too.
My main partition is of course Slackware 12 but you really don't want to know what I have been through already trying to install IS 46.
Are you still just having difficulties tracking down dependencies? I don't know how the Slackware infrastructures is set up, are there people to whom we can communicate the these packaging problems? Is there a Slackware VM image somewhere that we could test to help you?
Aaron Spike
Thanks for the kind offer.
Slackware's creator and maintainer (Patrick Volkerding) for reasons of his own decided to abandon Gnome sometime back. That means that there is no official Slackware Inkscape package. There are third party total Gnome addon packages but each has some problems. And sometimes they screw up other things that worked before. I tried adding in the needed libraries etc. one at a time. I finally got to one that I compiled and installed but ./configure couldn't find it. Then I gave up. I am not asking for further help on this issue. I have wasted days. No reason that others should waste more days. I can make Gimp, Scribus etc. operate on my Slack partition. Inkscape 46 is just a special case on Slack (or rather not on Slack.)
The XP option sounds good. I just have to remember to turn off the cable modem when I operate on the dark side, after I install Inkscape of course.
Thanks again.
I wonder if installing Inkscape through Wine would be ridiculously stupid. I wonder if it would work. Hmm...
heathenx
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