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I know I can put up a Debian or derivative partition (Ubuntu, Kubuntu,
Mbotu etc.) and get to Inkscape 46 fairly painlessly. I also have
already an unused Win XP partition.

My question is, does Inkscape 46 download painlessly to Win XP or is
it one of those kludges where you have to download this to compile
that to support something else? I am looking for the easiest path to
a fully functioning IS 46.

My main partition is of course Slackware 12 but you really don't want
to know what I have been through already trying to install IS 46.
--
John Culleton
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John Culleton wrote the following on 7/18/2008 11:38 AM:
> to know what I have been through already trying to install IS 46. 
I use Inkscape 0.46 on WinXP SP3. Everything works great. You shouldn't 
be disappointed.

heathenx

John Culleton wrote:
> My question is, does Inkscape 46 download painlessly to Win XP or is 
> it one of those kludges where you have to download this to compile 
> that to support something else? I am looking for the easiest path to 
> a fully functioning IS 46. 

Inkscape on win32 (for many releases now) has been a single downloadable
zip or installer package with everything you need to run. There are also
   packages built from SVN trunk on a daily (or nearly daily) basis. I
usually have both installed so that I can work in the stable build and
test all the new fancy features too.

> My main partition is of course Slackware 12 but you really don't want 
> to know what I have been through already trying to install IS 46. 

Are you still just having difficulties tracking down dependencies? I
don't know how the Slackware infrastructures is set up, are there people
to whom we can communicate the these packaging problems? Is there a
Slackware VM image somewhere that we could test to help you?

Aaron Spike

On Friday 18 July 2008 01:08:24 pm Aaron Spike wrote:
> work in the stable build and test all the new fancy features too.
>
> Aaron Spike

Thanks for the kind offer.

Slackware's creator and maintainer (Patrick Volkerding) for reasons of
his own decided to abandon Gnome sometime back. That means that there
is no official Slackware Inkscape package. There are third party
total Gnome addon packages but each has some problems. And sometimes
they screw up other things that worked before. I tried adding in the
needed libraries etc.  one at a time. I finally got to one that I
compiled and installed but ./configure couldn't find it. Then I gave
up.  I am not asking for further help on this issue. I have wasted
days. No reason that others should waste more days.   I can make
Gimp, Scribus etc. operate on my Slack partition.  Inkscape 46 is
just a special case on Slack (or rather not on Slack.)

The XP option sounds good. I just have to remember to turn off the
cable modem when I operate on the dark side, after I install Inkscape
of course.

Thanks again.



--
John Culleton
Resources for every author and publisher:
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm
http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

John Culleton wrote the following on 7/18/2008 3:14 PM:
>> work in the stable build and test all the new fancy features too.
>> Aaron Spike
> up.  I am not asking for further help on this issue. I have wasted 
> days. No reason that others should waste more days.   I can make 
> Gimp, Scribus etc. operate on my Slack partition.  Inkscape 46 is 
> just a special case on Slack (or rather not on Slack.)
> 
> The XP option sounds good. I just have to remember to turn off the 
> cable modem when I operate on the dark side, after I install Inkscape 
> of course. 
> 
> Thanks again. 


I wonder if installing Inkscape through Wine would be ridiculously 
stupid. I wonder if it would
work. Hmm...

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