On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Michael Wybrow wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jens Noeckel wrote:
>> On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Michael Wybrow wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>>>> On 7/10/06, Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> I have unstabe enabled fink installed inkscape 0.44-1004 on two  
>>>>> of my computers (one G4 running fink 0.8.1.rsync powerpc, and  
>>>>> one Macbook running 0.8.1.rsync i386). The builds showed no  
>>>>> obvious problems, but on both computers I cannot open SVG  
>>>>> files. Inkscape has no trouble importing other formats, e.g.,  
>>>>> TIFF, and it also manages to save SVG drawings . However, even  
>>>>> the saved SVG has some features missing - such as gradients  
>>>>> (checked with Adobe Illustrator).
>>>>> When I first saw the problem opening SVG files, I thought it  
>>>>> may have to do with the virtual file system (gnome vfs).  On  
>>>>> the G4, I have gnome-vfs2 (version 2.10.1-1005) and on the  
>>>>> Intel machine, I have gnome-vfs2-ssl (version 2.10.1-5) , i.e.  
>>>>> one with ssl and one without. The behavior on opening SVG is  
>>>>> always the same on both systems, though: I get a GUI dialog  
>>>>> with the message "Failed to load the requested file", and it  
>>>>> lists the path name to the file I tried to open (which is the  
>>>>> correct path).
>>> I believe this problem is related to gnome-vfs, particularily to  
>>> it not being able to dynamically load some necessary module or  
>>> config file.
>>> Can you check you have all three of the following:
>>> gnome-vfs2 (or ssl variant)
>>> gnome-vfs2-shlibs (or ssl variant)
>>> gnome-mime-data
>>> Looks like we don't explicitly Depend on gnome-vfs2, that might  
>>> be the problem as the /sw/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules dir would be  
>>> missing.
>>
>> I do have the following installed:
>>
>> i      gnome-mime-data 2.4.2-3 The GNOME MIME database
>> i      gnome-vfs2-ssl-dev      2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual  
>> file-system libraries
>> i      gnome-vfs2-ssl-shlibs   2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual  
>> file-system libraries
>>
>> But there is no directory /sw/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules here. What  
>> I have is the following:
>
>
> Yes, that etc directory is in the main gnome-vfs2-ssl package (not  
> the dev or shlibs splitoff).  Please try doing:
>       fink install gnome-vfs2-ssl
>

Michael,
that solved the problem - thanks very much! Now Inkscape opens the  
svg file fine. Everything seems to be back to normal - I'll explore  
it some more later.

Jens



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