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/37360/inkscape-1.2.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 490c40bbb3ce3441ceee88e61775bbf4
Download size: 38 MB
Estimated disk space required: 911 MB (184 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 4.7 SBU (with parallelism=4)
The tarball inkscape-1.2.2.tar.xz
will extract to the directory inkscape-1.2.2_2022-12-01_b0a8486541/.
Boost-1.82.0, double-conversion-3.2.1, GC-8.2.2, Gsl-2.7.1, Gtkmm-3.24.7, libsoup-2.74.3, libxslt-1.1.38, Poppler-23.05.0, popt-1.19 and Wget-1.21.4 (to download the test dependencies)
ImageMagick-7.1.0-61, Little CMS-2.14 or Little CMS-1.19, libcanberra-0.30 (to eliminate plugin warnings), Potrace-1.16 (for the bucket-fill tool), also various Python modules at runtime for the core extensions: CacheControl-0.12.11, cssselect-1.2.0, lxml-4.9.2, NumPy-1.24.3, pySerial-3.5, and Scour-0.38.2
Aspell-0.60.8, dbus-1.14.6 (to run inkscape from scripts), Doxygen-1.9.6, gspell-1.12.1, libcdr, libvisio, libwpg (or libwpd)
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 may occasionally fail when building with multiple processors. See Using Multiple Processors for more information.
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+-3.24.37 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.