On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:51 AM, John Culleton wrote:
When I try to compile Inkscape 46 I run into the usual lib problems. I downloaded the latest versions per the urls on the Inkscape install page but that doesn't work. I downloaded earlier versions and ran ldconfig but that didn't help. For the following products which exact versions do I need? I was successful in loading libsigc++-2.2.3. The rest don't work: gdkmm-2.4 glibmm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4
I use Slackware 13 which was just released. I installed the Boehm thingamabob (Bone Collector?).
I'd started a wiki page a while back to try to collect up such information: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies
I'm unfamiliar with the details on slack, but in general you'd need to use your distributions means of installing the runtime and developer packages for each item.
So the first step is getting libraries that will work on your distro. That is usually up to your distro itself. You *can* download, build and install them yourself, but that often leads to problems.