hello all,

i've just done a fresh install of ubuntu 6.06 amd 64 and built inkscape from the subversion repository.

first installed all the packages i needed with...

apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9 intltool libglib2.0-dev libtool g++ libpng-dev libgc-dev freetype-tools libfreetype6 liblcms-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libpopt-dev make

...then i downloaded a working copy from the subversion repository with....

svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape

...then cd'd into the inkscape directory that subversion had created and built it with the following commands....

./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install

...and i now have a bleeding edge version of inkscape. well worth it.

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when i fancy updating all i have to do is cd into the inkscape directory again and do use the following commands.....

svn update ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install

hope this is useful to someone. john