Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Samstag, 4. M?rz 2006 23:24 schrieb John R. Culleton: > >> I have run Slackware since the floppy disk days but now it seems >> to be running out of steam in the DTP area. In particular >> several attempts to install Inkscape have failed. I know that >> several users of Scribus also use Inkscape. So my question is: >> whoat distro comes with Inkscape or is a capable host for >> Inkscape? How about Debian? >> >> The distro would need to be Scribus friendly too of course. >> > > Hi John, > > AFAIK, any of the major distros (Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Mandriva ...) is > shipped with Inkscape, Scribus, and GIMP. If you want to compile the most > recent versions yourself, I wouldn't recommend Mandriva which doesn't take > care of many standards and is therefore almost proprietary. Personally, I'm > using SuSE which is quite user friendly, but has some quirks you have to live > by. Others will recommend Fedora, Gentoo, or Debian for good reasons. > I use FC4 (Fedora Core 4) and as far as I know it doesn't "ship with" Inkscape or Scribus, but you can easily install both with yum: eg, 'yum install inkscape'. If you're going to use a CVS version of Scribus (or Inkscape for that matter), you can get all the "parts" you need to compile, again with yum.
Greg
