Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
John Culleton wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
Ubuntu, by far.
First: sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape Then compile inkscape.
Albert
I've been compiling current inkscape on Ubuntu 8.04 without problems. First time around configure keeps stopping because dev packages aren't installed, but I think they were all available using synatpic, ubuntu's package manager, so it's just a matter of installing them all the first time.
Cheers -Terry
On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:04:33 -0400 John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:04:33 -0400 John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
debian lenny now has 0.46 in its repositories. No messing about necessary - I got it recently on a normal update.
On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:04:33 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
Works fine here on openSUSE 10.3. Installed it from a repository on the openSUSE build service.
Jim
2008/5/15 John Culleton <john@...1668...>:
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Inkscape 0.46, so a binary version can be installed with ease.
The source repositories are also available, and I know you can run a command that will load a source package, and install all the libs required to build that package. I have not needed to do that yet, so I can't tell you exactly what the command is, unfortunately.
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 13:04 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Inkscape version 46 requires many updated libraries. I have a main Slackware partition that lacks many libraries altogether. I installed Debian on a spare partition but some libraries were obsolete. Plus I had to go through build-install just to get the needed compiler. And there is an elusive XML Perl module that most distros don't have.
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
I don't know what distro is best but I'm running Ubuntu on a PowerPC. I have compiled Inkscape before but I haven't tried it since I upgraded.
First, for a Debian/Ubuntu distro, you need to install the 'build-essential' (Note, no 's'). Also you may want to install the manpages-dev.
To compile Inkscape, you need to install the development versions of the libraries. Your system have already have the non-development ones. The development version is the same but '-dev' has been added to the end of its name.
The libraries should be listed in the README but last time I tried I discovered some where missing. (I think this has been corrected but see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/199595 )
Hope this helps.
John Culleton wrote:
So here is my question: is there a Linux distro that has the requirements for compiling Inkscape 46 without requiring me to chase all over the internet looking for the bits and pieces? I don't care if it is stable or unstable.
Works fine for me on both 32- and 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04... in the repositories, works fine.
frank
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