On Monday 06 March 2006 02:51, Lars Behrens wrote: > on Saturday 04 March 2006 23:24 John R. Culleton wrote: > > I have run Slackware since the floppy disk days but now it seems > > to be running out of steam in the DTP area. In particular > > several attempts to install Inkscape have failed. I know that > > several users of Scribus also use Inkscape. So my question is: > > whoat distro comes with Inkscape or is a capable host for > > Inkscape? How about Debian? > > I'm running Slackware 10.2 with Inkscape 0.43 and Scribus 1.3.2 here. > Don't remember if I had a problem in installing these versions, but I > would say that the effort in changing your distro will surely overweigh > the effort of installing a few missing libraries (if there are any) > > Cheerz Lars
After several misfires and partial solutions, a person from the alt.os.linux.slackware internet newsgroup suggested a workable and easy solution. I installed a version of the Gnome desktop called FRG Gnome that includes several packages, including Inkscape. These programs also showed up on my KDE menus. This is Inkscape 1.42.2. FRG Gnome is a special edition of the desktop customized to work with Slackware, which is going to drop Gnome altogether soon. An earlier, partial solution was to install Inkscape on a Debian parition I have, but don't use. Then I addressed the Inkscape on that partition from my Slackware/KDE desktop. Inkscape ran but gave warning messages about missing functions. I am told that Inkscape is very sensitive about having the same versions of libraries installed as it was originally compiled with. Thanks to all who responded It has been an informative thread. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
