Inkscape is a what you see is what you get Scalable Vector Graphics editor. It is useful for creating, viewing and changing SVG images.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://inkscape.org/gallery/item/33449/inkscape-1.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fb40ac4635b9ea5608e1706584cd0665
Download size: 37 MB
Estimated disk space required: 713 MB (181 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 6.1 SBU (with parallelism=4)
The tarball inkscape-1.2.tar.xz will extract to the directory inkscape-1.2_2022-05-15_dc2aedaf03/.
Boost-1.79.0, double-conversion-3.2.0, GC-8.0.6, GDL-3.40.0, Gsl-2.7.1, Gtkmm-3.24.5, libsoup-2.74.2, libxslt-1.1.35, Poppler-22.06.0, popt-1.18 and Wget-1.21.3 (to download the test dependencies)
ImageMagick-7.1.0-25, Little CMS-2.13.1 or Little CMS-1.19, libcanberra-0.30 (to eliminate plugin warnings), Potrace-1.16 (for the bucket-fill tool), lxml-4.9.0 and Scour-0.38.2 (both at runtime, for Save As Optimized SVG).
Aspell-0.60.8, dbus-1.14.0 (to run inkscape from scripts), Doxygen-1.9.4, gtkspell, libcdr, libvisio, libwpg (or libwpd) and NumPy (at runtime for some extensions)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/inkscape
Install Inkscape by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
.. &&
make
This package does not come with a working test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop
files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can
improve system performance and memory usage by updating
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To
perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.33 or
GTK+-3.24.34 installed (for the icon cache)
and desktop-file-utils-0.26 (for
the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the
root user:
gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor && update-desktop-database -q
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release:
This switch is used to build the release library without any debug
`assert` in the code.
-DWITH_DBUS=ON: use this if you wish to
use inkscape in
interactive scripts which manipulate images.