Inkscape install, sigc++ help

[Mikha]

Hey all, I'm having a bit of difficulty installing Inkscape 0.39. I've tried two different methods, compiling the source, and installing through autopackage. What's interesting is that neither one installs, and both have two different dependency problems. Compiling gives me a failed find of sigc++-2.0.pc, whereas the autopackage install finds sigc++, but can't find GTK2 C++ bindings.

So what did I do when both failed? Tried to install the GTK bindings.

gtkmm (GTK2 C++ bindings) had a dependency on glibmm, so I preceded to try to install glibmm first, but glibmm has a dependency on sigc++. Neither Inkscape nor glibmm can find the sigc++-2.0.pc which is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. The error for both is that PKG_CONFIG_PATH can't find sigc++-2.0.pc, which is stupid since it is in the exact place it should be.

My question, has anybody resolved this, and if so how did you do it? If not, can someone direct me as to fix this stupid stupid problem?

[fjleal]

Isn't Inkscape related to Sodipodi? Sodipodi is easier to install in Fedora.

[Jman]

Try installing the rpms from dag. Just add this to /etc/yum.conf

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core $releasever
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

and run

yum install inkscape

[Mikha]

The problem is that I don't have internet access with Linux yet (Wireless adapter isn't supported yet), so I have to rely completely on software downloaded fron various websites while in Windows. Also, the latest Inkscape doesn't have an RPM out yet.

[Mikha]

Anybody have any ideas?

[kosmosik]

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/inkscape/

please use fedoratracker (http://www.fedoratracker.org/) next time you search for packages/programs...

[CriminallyGeeky]

If I understand this properly and they are simply dependency problems try this:

Originally Posted by code

RPM -U --nodeps /package/directory/name.rpm

I always install using the -U option for new installs and upgrades it is simly better.