I run debian unstable. I installed inkscape 0.41 from the official packages and from sources around 10 times now. And I always get the same window at the beginning:
The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at: /home/sunny/.inkscape/extension-errors.log
one by one i found all the dependencies until I have left two of them:
Extension "Grid" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: plugin location: path string: grid
Extension "GIMP Gradients" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: plugin location: path string: gimpgrad
On the other hand I don't get to see the effects menu, so i have no effects at all ¿is it because of these two extensions? I followed http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GettingEffectsWorking or tried because in inkscapre prefs, misc, i don't have "Enable script effects". I set it manually in preferences.xml adding show-effects-menu="1" to no effect. I installed python, python-xml, perl, libxml-xql-perl. I did ./configure --with-perl --with-python and recognized them perfect. ¿am I missing something?
I noticed this two are the only one plugins out of all listed in the extensions directory.
I am quite new at Linux, and I don't know what else to try.