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Uri Herrera
Asked: 2012-07-03 16:17:43 +0800 CST

How can I install Inkscape from BZR?

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In order to get the latest version of Inkscape, one has to use BZR.

How can I install inkscape using BZR and properly install it on my System?.

Detailed step by step guide would be preferable.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    First install the build dependencies, you can do this simply by asking apt for the dependencies, first you need to make sure the source code section of software sources is set up:

    Then install the dependencies:

    sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape

    Then you want to pull the source, in this case we don' t need the entire history for the project so we'll just do a lightweight checkout, this can still take a while:

    bzr co --lightweight lp:inkscape

    Then we need to cd into the directory and build it

    cd inkscape
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

    This will build Inkscape and install it into /usr/local/bin/inkscape by default.

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  2. Warning: Third party PPA, proceed with caution. More details on that here and here.

    I just did a quick search on Launchpad, and discovered this PPA, which appears to have daily builds of inkscape available. Instructions on how to add the PPA are available here, the PPA you want to add is ppa:cafuego/inkscape.

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