Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.2-1152

Chapter 41. Other X-based Programs

Inkscape-1.2.2

Introduction to Inkscape

Inkscape is a what you see is what you get Scalable Vector Graphics editor. It is useful for creating, viewing and changing SVG images.

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Package Information

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The tarball inkscape-1.2.2.tar.xz will extract to the directory inkscape-1.2.2_2022-12-01_b0a8486541/.

Inkscape Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.81.0, double-conversion-3.2.1, GC-8.2.2, GDL-3.40.0, Gsl-2.7.1, Gtkmm-3.24.7, libsoup-2.74.3, libxslt-1.1.37, Poppler-23.02.0, popt-1.19 and Wget-1.21.3 (to download the test dependencies)

Recommended

ImageMagick-7.1.0-61, Little CMS-2.14 or Little CMS-1.19, libcanberra-0.30 (to eliminate plugin warnings), Potrace-1.16 (for the bucket-fill tool), lxml-4.9.2 and Scour-0.38.2 (both at runtime, for Save As Optimized SVG).

Optional

Aspell-0.60.8, dbus-1.14.4 (to run inkscape from scripts), Doxygen-1.9.6, gspell-1.12.0, libcdr, libvisio, libwpg (or libwpd) and NumPy (at runtime for some extensions)

Optional Runtime Dependencies (for some of the Inkscape extensions)

XML::XQL

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/inkscape

Installation of Inkscape

Install Inkscape by running the following commands: 

mkdir build                       &&
cd    build                       &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      ..                          &&
make
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This package may occasionally fail when building with multiple processors. See Using Multiple Processors for more information.

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install
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This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.33 or GTK+-3.24.36 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.26 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user: 

gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
update-desktop-database -q

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to build the release library without any debug `assert` in the code.

-DWITH_DBUS=ON: use this if you wish to use inkscape in interactive scripts which manipulate images.

Contents

Installed Programs: inkscape and inkview
Installed Library: lib2geom.so and libinkscape_base.so (in /usr/lib/inkscape)
Installed Directories: /usr/include/2geom-1.2.2, /usr/lib/inkscape, and /usr/share/inkscape

Short Descriptions

inkscape

is a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editing program

inkview

is a simple program for displaying SVG files

libinkscape_base.so

provides the routines used by inkscape and inkview