I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements?
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:36:30 -0400 John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements?
Hmmm, don't know about 0.46 but debian etch comes with both inkscape 0.45 and scribus 1.3.4 in the default deb packages. It also has abiword 2.4.6 if that is of any interest.
I'm running Ubuntu, and using the autopackage builds from the main inkscape site. Works fine. Did you tried to use the autopackages with Slack?
Carlos
On 8/29/07, Abrolag <abrolag@...16...> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:36:30 -0400 John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements?
Hmmm, don't know about 0.46 but debian etch comes with both inkscape 0.45 and scribus 1.3.4 in the default deb packages. It also has abiword 2.4.6 if that is of any interest.
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:36:30AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements?
I wouldn't presume to tell you which is the best distribution, but I know from personal experience that Debian has Inkscape binary packages in the main distribution. Packages in main can't depend or build-depend on packages not in main, so this implies that all the required libraries are in the system. With apt's dependency resolution, you can install them all with a single `apt-get install inkscape`.
Ubuntu also uses apt as its package manager, so it would be just as easy, assuming there are Inkscape packages in Ubuntu, which seems likely. I don't know about Mandriva, as last time I used it it was still called Mandrake.
As always, I recommend you ask your RL friends/colleagues, or people at your local LUG, what they use, as they're the people you'll be asking for advice when you want to configure something.
Just adding, there are Ubuntu packages for Inkscape 0.45. I'm using the autopackage build because of the new features.
Carlos
On 8/29/07, Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:36:30AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
I use Slackware but Slack doesn't come with certain necessary libraries. So I am going to set up another partition just for Inkscape, Scribus etc. I can go Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, whatever. What distribution would be best for Inkscape 46, considering library requirements?
I wouldn't presume to tell you which is the best distribution, but I know from personal experience that Debian has Inkscape binary packages in the main distribution. Packages in main can't depend or build-depend on packages not in main, so this implies that all the required libraries are in the system. With apt's dependency resolution, you can install them all with a single `apt-get install inkscape`.
Ubuntu also uses apt as its package manager, so it would be just as easy, assuming there are Inkscape packages in Ubuntu, which seems likely. I don't know about Mandriva, as last time I used it it was still called Mandrake.
As always, I recommend you ask your RL friends/colleagues, or people at your local LUG, what they use, as they're the people you'll be asking for advice when you want to configure something.
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