CompilingFedora

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/"