CompilingFedora
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Fedora 8, 9 & 10
Load up a terminal and run the following 4 commands to download the Inkscape sourcecode, install the programs Inkscape needs to compile, and compile and install it, and then run it:
svn co https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape ; cd inkscape
sudo yum install ImageMagick-c++-devel ImageMagick-c++ ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick glibmm24-devel libsigc++-devel gtkmm24-devel glibmm24 libsigc++ gtkmm24 intltool gc gc-devel lcms lcms-devel gsl gsl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel boost-devel popt-static poppler-devel inkscape
./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/inkscape
Note: for Fedora 8 you might need to do this before running ./configure
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig/"