Hi Guys

I've been pulling my hair out. I've been trying to compile inkscape (the newest version available as of Nov '08) but I keep on running into seemingly infinite dependencies. I've downloaded about 70MB worth of GTK libraries, but each time one library requires another, which requires another, which requires one where that library's latest available version is apparently incompatible with one of the previous ones... so I start again. This is happening over and over, I just never seem able to get the right combinations of versions that will live with each other and eventually with the tip of the iceberg - inkscape itself.

Is there a guide / howto anywhere that lists the CORRECT versions of ALL required GTK libraries to get inkscape to compile? Since as far as I can determine, it will NOT (or one of its huge set of dependencies, if you try latest versions of the GTK libraries) compile - unless you have EXACTLY the right versions of GTK libraries - libraries that will allow inkscape to compile against them, BUT ALSO allows "each other" (as regards GTK libraries) to compile...

I just can't seem to find the right version mix... The inkscape compile guide as I understand it merely states that GTK dev libraries are required.

I'm really -really- stuck in version hell with this... fixing one incompatible library merely hatches two or other more incompatibilities "upstream" and sometimes "downstream" in the compile chain for a particular library - version incompatibilities are cascading up and down and I simply can't get the right "mix" to eventually be able to get inskscape to even start compliling. (I suspect if I do that, I'll just run into "inkscape itself" issues again...)

Anybody got ANY advice to give?

Nirvana would be a list of versions of GTK libraries (there apparently are dozens of versions available of each major component - glib, pango, atk etc. etc.!) that will allow inkscape to compile...

You don't say what distro you're using. Can't you just grab inkscape from your package manager, which will probably get all the required dependencies for you?

If you absolutely have to have a custom compiled version, try looking at the Slackware SlackBuild scripts for each dependency to see which versions you need:

InkScape SlackBuild:
http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...ape.SlackBuild

Dependencies:

• Boost:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...ost.SlackBuild
• libsigc++:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...c++.SlackBuild
• glibmm:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...bmm.SlackBuild
• GTKmm:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...kmm.SlackBuild
• Cairomm:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1...omm.SlackBuild
• gc:
  http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1.../gc.SlackBuild

Each script should tell you which version its using in the first few lines.

There may be other dependencies, but these will build a working InkScape on Slackware, so hopefully most things are covered.

Replacing all gtk related stuff on Fedora 6 to compile
the latest inkscape is "impossible"

Just try this : 'rpm -e gtk' (gtk2) and you will be told
that 600 other applications will be removed.

Probably feasible on Fedora 9 or 10.