[KLUG Members] Inkscape on SuSE 9.2

[Andrew Thompson]

Has anyone here managed to get a working copy of Inkscape running on
SuSE 9.2? The binary RPMs install without protest, but the program gives
me "undefined symbol: g_option_error_quark" when I try to run it. The
source RPM refused to build, first with this error:

> libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile
> inkscape

and then, when I finally figured out where it wanted to find that (it
doesn't like the location of the installed version, apparently), the
build got past that point, only to choke again with this:

> configure: error: Library requirements (gdkmm-2.4  glibmm-2.4
> gtkmm-2.4  gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0  libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.0  libxslt >= 1.0.15
> sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.3    gthread-2.0 >= 2.0) not met; consider adjusting
> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
> nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

That's when I finally gave up. I've already put up with more than enough
just upgrading the system and getting all the hardward working again,
and this application was one of the two or three reasons I bothered to
do so. Is there something simple I'm missing, here, or how many other
packages do I have to dig up to make this work?

-- 
Andrew Thompson <apthmpsn at imagerie.com>
The Imagerie (www.imagerie.com)