Hi !

I'm trying ton install Inkscape 0.91 on a Debian Wheezy (32 bits). I'l following this tutorial which seems a bit out of date : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian

I donwloaded the source and extracted them. I'm stuck at the step "building the package". I enter the command and get this error : "unable to write in "debian/changelog. No such file or directory."

Could please someone guide me for this installation or redirect me to a more recent tutorial ?

Thank you !

That is because there is no debian checkout sub-directory in inkscape-0.91 folder.
I could not succeded to build a *.deb packege of inkscape in debian wheezy, e.g. through "apt-get -b source inkscape=0.91-3" due to dependencies problems (0.91 is in debian experimental), which are not solved even by "apt-get build-dep inkscape=0.91-3".
However, this worked:
1. dowload sources from inkscape website: https://inkscape.org/en/download/
2. Uncompress and enter the inkscape-0.91 direcotry
3. run: ./configure
4. run: make
5. as root, run: make install
Now you have inkscape v. 0.91, installed under /usr/local/bin. It is not managed by apt, aptitude or synaptic, but it works. This means also that the previous inkscape installation is still in /usr/bin.
When a debian package for wheezy will be available you can unistall through:
make uninstall (run the command from the inkscape-0.91 direcotry)
while to manually update to a newer version run again the above commands to build and install.

I hope this may help,

Davide

Thank you very much ! I'll try it as soon as I find a little time.

Done and working ! Thank you very much !