Asif Lodhi wrote:
Then again I'll have to download the necessary dependencies - that thing that I really want to save myself from. I don't know whether F7 includes all of the dependencies that Inkscape requires or not. The
All the necessary dependencies *are* in F7, they may not be installed by default or may not be on the first DVD, but they are packaged (so available for yum install, which you unfortunately can't use).
I expect (but I am not certainly sure) if you used to have Inkscape 0.45 installed from the Fedora repositories, you should already have all the needed dependencies installed, so you need only the autopackage installer and inkscape in autopackage format.
reason I fear a dependency downloading purgatory is that Fedora folks have been taking things out in every release instead of adding up more stuff. For example, KOffice is not in F7.
KOffice was not removed form F7, it was removed from the main DVD image, but it is available for yum install.
This is offtopic here, but Fedora really added a lot of packages, part of them by merging Core and Extras and part as completely new packages. What happened in your case is that the main DVD does not have room for all those packages, so part of the applications are available *only* for online install (note: at some point it was discussed a second DVD for an "everything" install, but that disk was not produced for F7)