New Inkscape: Deb for Dapper

[kleeman]

Version 0.44 of inkscape has lots of interesting new features. See here:

http://www.inkscape.org/

The site is slashdotted at present so I compiled a Dapper deb using their Debian infrastructure (i.e. it is a higher quality deb than that produced by checkinstall). Looks nice! Grab it here:

http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=126052

Install using

sudo dpkg -i inkscape_0.44-1_i386.deb

[gingermark]

Pah, I preferred the old .43 "About" splash screen...

Thanks for the deb by the way!

[bruce89]

Pah, I preferred the old .43 "About" splash screen...

The new one fits in to the Dapper colours (orange) though, but I prefer the old one. Actually it fitted in with the Breezy colours (brown).

[neoncode]

Pah, I preferred the old .43 "About" splash screen...

Thanks for the deb by the way!

I thought that the .43 "About" Splash was hideous myself. I much Preffer the new one.
And thank you so much for the .deb! I'm on Kubuntu and for some reason the compile was not working. (But the .deb works for me, horray for package management!)

[bruce89]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pango1.0 reveals that Pango on Edgy is 1.12.2-0ubuntu3 and Dapper is 1.12.3-0ubuntu1. This is because when Dapper was released, 1.12.2-0ubuntu3 was the latest, so Edgy inherited it. 1.12.3-0ubuntu1 is a dapper-update. I can't use the DEB as I have an AMD64 (no I will not --force-architechure), I'll just wait for a backport.

[kleeman]

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pango1.0 reveals that Pango on Edgy is 1.12.2-0ubuntu3 and Dapper is 1.12.3-0ubuntu1. This is because when Dapper was released, 1.12.2-0ubuntu3 was the latest, so Edgy inherited it. 1.12.3-0ubuntu1 is a dapper-update. I can't use the DEB as I have an AMD64 (no I will not --force-architechure), I'll just wait for a backport.

So if this was the problem for dare2dream then he should install the latest libpango from dapper-update on his edgy platform ......

[bruce89]

So if this was the problem for dare2dream then he should install the latest libpango from dapper-update on his edgy platform ......

I suppose that might work.

[volfro]

Awesome work!

Installed and functions perfectly for me. I'm really glad you did this, as I was chomping at the bit for the new version, and waiting on Ubuntu repos is gruelling when all you want is some dang layer masking abilities.

Thanks so much!

[tikal26]

I get the following error message
dpkg-deb: `inkscape_0.44-1_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing inkscape_0.44-1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
inkscape_0.44-1_i386.deb
any help?

[kleeman]

Sounds like your download did not complete and you have a corrupted file. Try to redownload.