I don't use Slackware, but on our wiki it makes mention of slackbuilds.organd I found this page for you which may help http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/graphics/inkscape/ (hopefully you can just swap out for the 0.48.4 tarball). For Debian based distros though, you can run "sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape" from the cli and which will pull down all the dependencies you need to build Inkscape.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Josh

On Feb 18, 2013 12:43 PM, "john Culleton" <John@...1668...> wrote:

In both Slackwaate 14 and Debian wheezy I am presented with a list of missing or outdated packages when compiling stable version Inkscape 0.48.4. Is there a precompiled version in e.g. tarball or RPM format that I can install? Or is there a single package of all the lib packages needed for 48.4? I grow tired of library chasing, especially on Debian where apt-get simply doesn't recognize the names of the missing libs. Here are the missing libs using Slackware 14.0:

No package 'gdkmm-2.4' found No package 'glibmm-2.4' found No package 'giomm-2.4' found No package 'gtkmm-2.4' found No package 'sigc++-2.0' found No package 'gsl' found

When I search out and download these I find that there are additional packages missing.

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