Installing Inkscape 0.46

[Guest mikejd]

I have been running Mandriva 2008.1 for some time. I had Inkscape 0.46 installed but it suddenly stopped loading. So I uninstalled it and tried reinstalling. I thought I would upgrade to 0.47 but found I could not download the file through the Mandriva configuration interface due to missing libpoppler.so.5. I tried to reinstall 0.46 and this worked but it still fails to load, now apparently due to a missing file libperl.so.

 

I have been unable to find either of these dependancies so how can I get a working installation?

 

Mike Davies

[daniewicz]

To find a rpm package that contains file XXX

$ rpm -q --whatprovides XXX

 

 

rpm -q --whatprovides libperl.so

 

gives the following on my mandriva 2008.1 install: perl-base-5.10.0-13.1mdv2008.1

 

so make sure you have this file installed.

[ianw1974]

That will work if perl-base is installed, however, if it's not installed and you're trying to find a package that you need, you can do this:

 

urpmf --provides libperl.so

 

then you can see what package is listed and then install it, thus:

 

urpmi perl-base

 

for example.

[neddie]

For 2008.1, the default version of inkscape is 0.45. If you want 0.46, you'll have to enable the backports repository.

I think this is more likely to result in success than trying to install 2009.0 or 2009.1 packages, which it sounds like you might have been trying to do?

[scarecrow]

Inkscape has a LOT of GNOME dependencies, and so installing a non-backport RPM is highly likely to fail.

A safer solution is (as suggested) to install the latest available from backports, or compiling it yourself leaving out all unnecessary GNOME deps.