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2007-06-14T02:29:03Z

Rava-sama: /* Dapper and Edgy */

== Dapper and Edgy ==
If you're going to build Inkscape, you'll need to have a full complement of build requirements. This is very easy to do in Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy:

Note: the libgc-6.7 that is available in Edgy removes the need for the following:

<pre>
sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape
sudo apt-get install liblcms-dev build-essential
echo "deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get source libgc-dev
sudo apt-get install fakeroot debhelper
cd libgc*
sudo fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../libgc*.deb
</pre>

If you want version 0.44 from Debian Unstable, you can compile it in the same way as libgc above:

<pre>
apt-get source inkscape
cd inkscape*
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../inkscape*.deb
</pre>

To build the SVN snapshots:

<pre>
# Untar and navigate to the inkscape source folder
./configure
make
sudo make install
</pre>

Instead of doing "make install", on Debian-based distributions (such as Ubuntu) it is better to do
<pre>
sudo checkinstall
</pre>
since checkinstall first builds the .deb package and then installs it, thus making the package system aware of the newly installed inkscape.
If you get the "command not found" message, do
<pre>
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
</pre>

'''Notes:'''
build-dep gets all the dependencies for the version of Inkscape that comes with Ubuntu. We're not building the same version, but most of the dependencies are the same.

libcms-dev was required for ./configure to work

This was done on a recently installed Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) system. I built Inkscape version 0.44.

The following packages are need to compile cvs inkscape under a default Ubuntu Hoary/Breezy/Dapper system:
apt-get install cvs build-essential intltool libtool libgtkmm-2.4-dev libglib2.0-dev libpng12-dev libxslt1-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libpopt-dev libgc-dev

Inkscape requires libgc-6.7.

Breezy uses 6.4, Dapper uses 6.6, Edgy uses 6.7

Hoary uses version 6.3, which is provided in the Repos. (Is there somewhere to get a .deb for 6.4?)

To overwrite libgc-6.3 with libgc-6.4:
Download gc6.4
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

== Old libgc 6.5 debs for Breezy ==

http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/libgc-dev_6.5-1_i386.deb
http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/libgc1_6.5-1_i386.deb

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