i just find out there's no .deb or .rpm package for inkscape 0.48 or 0.47 in source forge. i used to install these binaries from my distro's repositories. any way question is: is it cause of a change in policies or there's something else?

This is really a matter of packaging in your Linux distribution. Ask them to update Inkscape.

I hope the problem of RPM packages gets better. I have a clean (not an update) Fedora Core 15 OS working, and I have considerable experience in compiling from source (I used to distribute the Unix flavor of TeX). The problems of dependency on undiscoverable libraries such as libopenjpeg.so.2 block all attempts to compile from source. If there are any successful Linux based compilations used by members of this forum, it would help those of us who are trying to escape Microsoft to learn about them.
I appreciate the moderator's feeling that this is really a Linux problem rather than a specifically Inkscape topic, but after days of effort I am desperate, and looking for any help or comment I can find.

YIKS!!! no inkscape in fedora 15 say it aint so

I'm still using fedora 14 because the huge changes in fedora 15, it's really a big step out there

maybe one of these would help?
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/pack ... ageID=2118

Pat Jr.

I believe there used to be universal binaries, but these do no longer exist AFAIK. I guess that's what you're referring to? These used to be available from Sourceforge?

However, at least two of the Inkscape developers are using Fedora 15 themselves, including me, so Inkscape certainly can be compiled for Fedora 15. And Inkscape must also be available from the Fedora repositories, heck, even from the repository of any respectable Linux distribution

I've been waiting to update the instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingFedora, because these are outdated. I was waiting for the new Inkscape website to get online, but that project is moving slowly. So for the time being, see if my UNEDITED notes are of any use to you: