Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend?
John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend?
Many of the Inkscape developers seem to prefer Ubuntu. I don't remember hearing of any serious problems with SuSE or Fedora either.
Aaron Spike
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:45:46PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
Well, Debian package manager uses .deb fies instead of .rpm files, but looking at the packages site just now, the 46 Inkscape is definitely available as part of Debian.
Package inkscape
* etch (oldstable) (graphics): vector-based drawing program 0.44.1-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * etch-m68k (graphics): vector-based drawing program 0.44.1-1: m68k * lenny (stable) (graphics): vector-based drawing program 0.46-2.lenny2: alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * squeeze (testing) (graphics): vector-based drawing program 0.46-9: alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * sid (unstable) (graphics): vector-based drawing program 0.46-9: alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc 0.46-8 [debports]: m68k 0.43-5: hurd-i386
See http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=inkscape&searchon=names&s...
for details.
-- hendrik
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On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:00:39 -0400 hendrik@...2611... wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:45:46PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
Well, Debian package manager uses .deb fies instead of .rpm files, but looking at the packages site just now, the 46 Inkscape is definitely available as part of Debian.
I was going to mention that - you beat me to it :)
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 17:45 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend?
I know you said you prefer rpm based distros, but I still have to recommend Ubuntu. A handful of our developers work for Canonical, so it is almost always in the best shape on Ubuntu compared to other distros.
Also, for Ubuntu, there is an inkscape-testing PPA (repository) that you will be able to get pretty bleeding edge builds easily for. Don't be scared by "testing" or "bleeding edge", we tend to keep SVN in pretty good shape as a handful of our devs use it for their day job.
Cheers, Josh
On 09/07/2009 12:45 AM, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend?
Fedora 11 does include by default a build from the development branch (0.47), so you can install it without any trouble (that is what I use daily).
On Monday 07 September 2009 02:54:48 Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 09/07/2009 12:45 AM, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for
Inkscape
despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its
own
partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape
46 since
anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other
factors
considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the
list
recommend?
Fedora 11 does include by default a build from the development
branch
(0.47), so you can install it without any trouble (that is what I
use
daily).
Very interesting. I will keep Fedora 11 in mind.
In my search I found xubuntu, an ubuntu variant that uses the same xfce gui as I use on Slackware. I installed it and successfully installed Inkscape 46. I know that 47 is imminent. Is there a summary of the new features, 47 v. 46?
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:00 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Very interesting. I will keep Fedora 11 in mind.
In my search I found xubuntu, an ubuntu variant that uses the same xfce gui as I use on Slackware. I installed it and successfully installed Inkscape 46. I know that 47 is imminent. Is there a summary of the new features, 47 v. 46?
Here's our version of a summary... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 ;)
Cheers, Josh
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