[KLUG Members] Inkscape on SuSE 9.2

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 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
> 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.

Inkscape requires a newer version of GTK than you have (the RPM should
not have installed,  it is obviously setup incorrectly).  [ This is one
of the beauties of a platform like .NET,  all this version madness goes
away;  but I digress... ]

Inkscape seems to be tracking very current versions of the GNOME core
libraries - probably helps them greatly in the really cools stuff they
are doing with fonts and on the canvas.