OK so it wasn't really me who fixed it. I got the suse version of the rpm from
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...fice/inkscape/ then it complained about not having pstoedit, which I found out on the inkscape irc channel you don't need so you can install with --force. Inkscape will just work around not having it. But I wanted it so I found it at
http://ftp.idilis.ro/mirrors/ftp.sus...9.2/suse/i586/ . Then having gotten that it complained about not having libEMF.so.1, so I got
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/9....-106.i586.html and installed using
$ rpm -Uvh inkscape-0.42-2.guru.suse92.i686.rpm pstoedit-3.33-220.1.i586.rpm libEMF-1.0-106.i586.rpm
Why so much info? Because I hate as a new user when someone doesn't explain the steps. Note: the -Uvh is Upgrade, verify, hash. I'm upgrading what is already there, verifying that everything is in order, and getting some pretty hash marks to let me know how my install is doing. Like hopefully not hanging. That way you don't close the terminal thinking it didn't work, when it was just actually in the middle of processing the install. Then you have random file all over your disk and sometimes things will think that the program exists when it doesn't.
