inkscape "binary" /or/ executable for LINUX ?
+ I use debian Sarge... it comes with Inkscape .41... .44 wont load with what I have, and most of the new dependencies aren't on my CD set... so... how to proceed ?
Is there, for instance, a way to get all the required libraries together for an Inkscape .44 upgrade ?
I guess it would be easy enough to just download all the separate dependency files... the debian site has links to all of them... but, can I just install these newer packages side by side with the older ones I have ? Thought I'd ask before I broke something :)
Thanks to debian users who have done this already maybe !
hi have you tried the autopackage version? http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.44.x86.package?downlo...
greetings markus bergholz
Hi and thanks for your quick reply.
Yes - in the past week I have tried every new linux version of the new Inkscape I could find... but, with the autopackage, I had the same problems as the compile version... it complains of not having newer libraries or similar.
ok, then of have to changed to unbstable
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=inkscape&...
but some debian unstable users have problems said inkscape.org
or search for other deb mirrors for your source.list.
greeting markus bergholz
stuseven wrote:
Hi and thanks for your quick reply.
Yes - in the past week I have tried every new linux version of the new Inkscape I could find... but, with the autopackage, I had the same problems as the compile version... it complains of not having newer libraries or similar.
1) apt-get install alien
2) Get the RPM version of Inkscape and use 'alien' to install it.
3) Once installed, run "ldd inkscape" and then install any libraries it says it can't find
4) Then inkscape should just run (try it from the command line first to make sure you catch error-messages if it doesn't)
I had to install two libs, but I can't remember the names. Remember you can just paste the library name after "apt-cache search " and it'll find the correct package name, though they are also pretty easy to guess. Obviously, you may have to install more or fewer libraries than I did.
This worked for me (also running Debian Sarge, although my system is a bit mixed-version by now).
There is currently some kind of package conflict with one of the build-deps for Inkscape, which makes the autopackage or source installation impossible without doing further source installations on (apparently) any current Debian distribution.
I'm sure they'll eventually sort that out, but I wanted to try it out now, and this is the fastest way.
Cheers, Terry
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:34:01 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
- apt-get install alien
This solves nothing, if the autopackage refuses to install he'll most likely have to upgrade GTK+ or some other intermediate library. The underlying problem is that Inkscape has higher minimum system requirements than Debian Sarge can satisfy.
thanks -mike
Mike Hearn wrote:
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:34:01 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
- apt-get install alien
This solves nothing, if the autopackage refuses to install he'll most likely have to upgrade GTK+ or some other intermediate library. The underlying problem is that Inkscape has higher minimum system requirements than Debian Sarge can satisfy.
Don't knock it, it works! The point is, I just did this the other day.
You will have to upgrade some libraries, possibly to testing. But AFAICT, the rpm with alien is the fastest way to get Inkscape working on Debian (there is no deb binary package).
You can't currently build it on Debian without a lot of headaches, because "apt-get build-dep inkscape" fails for any of the currently available targets (Sarge, Etch, or Sid). Which would mean having to *recompile* libraries, not just install the binaries. For somebody who just wants to get Inkscape running, this is the way to go.
Cheers, Terry
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