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Can you explain what you mean by x86 inkspace[sic] portable for Linux? I know you mean "inkscape" but I don't understand the sense of "portable". Do you want to install software without having admin privileges?
jdk
i think it's a valid question, and it should be possible without "bypassing" anything.
actually i even remember a solution, which i found long ago... i will skim through my forum posts, maybe i can find it again.
it was an application that basically packs everything you need (copies it from your system) in a directory structure with the program you want to run. like portableapps for linux.
It would be hard to install a private copy because inkscape needs many libraries, python modules, Imagemagick, etc. All of these would have to be installed privately if they did not exist on the system, maybe in a whole chroot filesystem. Simpler is to run a remote X session using Cygwin, or run an rdesktop to a remote Windows that has inkscape installed. Another way would be to take a working linux image that has it and run it in a VM.
Having a static Inkscape would indeed not be a trivial thing seeing the long list of dependencies, but I would think that having Inkscape on a school computer is a reasonable request, for which I would ask the admin.
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