I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu.
So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique?
Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM, John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu.
That is most likely a bug with units.txt file not loaded. I recently ran into it on Windows, but it was with an old 0.46+ build. When I tried a recent almost-0.47 Windows build, the bug was gone.
You can't just copy inkscape and libraries from Ubuntu to Slackware. You have to a install inkscape from scratch on to Slackware. As you do the install it will check the libraries on your Slackware to make sure they are there and new enough to work. By just randomly copying libraries you have broken other apps that used the old libraries that may have been newer then the ones you copied. Plus, you have probably destroyed the library version info used by other Slackware installs. Not to mention the the soft links.
I have inkscape .47 running perfectly on Slackware by downloading the source and running the .configure (tells you which libraries are missing or to old and need to be updated) make make install
I know this process scares a lot of users, but it almost never fails.
tj
John Culleton wrote:
I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu.
So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique?
Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run.
On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:14 PM, John Culleton wrote:
So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique?
The XP ones sound a bit unique. In general if a build works for XP, it works. Best if you compile yourself, but that is a bit much on Windows. The areas where problems usually are seen on XP are with drawing tablets and tablet PCs.
Slackware, on the other hand, is known for being trouble. That is, it has more of a reputation for a distro for those who know what they are doing and who can troubleshoot builds, etc.
Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run.
Or RedHat or a RedHat derivative, or many others. In general, most distros other than Slack and Gentoo have some packaging system that takes care of most of what you are dealing with.
So of the top 10 linux distros listed on DistroWatch, one is Slack, one is Gentoo, and the other eight are either .rpm or .deb based. And given that Gentoo is intentionally source based, a precompiled binary is not appropriate for that platform. So that basically leaves Slackware alone in need of that extra support.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> wrote:
So of the top 10 linux distros listed on DistroWatch, one is Slack, one is Gentoo, and the other eight are either .rpm or .deb based. And given that Gentoo is intentionally source based, a precompiled binary is not appropriate for that platform. So that basically leaves Slackware alone in need of that extra support.
The latest rcs appear to work fine on gentoo....
cheers, -matt
You might look at slacky.eu, and see if there is a build for it there. You may have to do a bit of dependency chasing to get it to work. The site is Italian, but a lot of the instructions, etc. are in english.
--- On Wed, 9/30/09, John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
From: John Culleton <john@...1668...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Good, bad, worse. To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 9:14 PM I have a version of Inkscape 47 running on Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus xfce) and it seems to be fully functional. I tried copying it to my Slackware 13 partition and by the time I finished moving libraries over to make Inkscape work some other apps would no longer
work. I switched to my XP partition and downloaded that version of 47 and it started, but when I went to the place where page dimensions were set the drop down menu where you could set
units was both too narrow to be typed in and too close to another glyph to use the drop down menu.
So I have Inkscape 47 on Xubuntu and can play with it. But the failures under XP and Slackware are troubling. Are my bad experiences with Inkscape on Slackware and XP unique?
Yes I know about the available slackbuild package but it doesn't come with the needed libraries either. I hope the stable version has more universality. Perhaps someday a precompiled Linux
version with static libraries included could be made. That would be easier for those who don't have Debian or a Debian derivative to install and run. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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