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<Solved> Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable

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On 3/5/21 10:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2021 03:08:00 Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> 
>> On 3/5/21 9:02 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> What is the best way to install the latest version of the inkscape
>>> on Buster?
>>>
>>> Buster installs inkscape 0.9 and I still encounter lots of bugs with
>>> it. I would like to try the latest but what is the best way to
>>> install newest version? Download .deb file?
>>
>> They provide appimage, just download and run it.
> 
> Which works, but I just now looked at .profile, and found that when I 
> looked at my $PATH, AppImage was not being added. I had several months 
> ago, created a $HOME/AppImages directory to store them in.
> 
> It worked well for that, but wasn't being added to my $PATH. Seem like it 
> might be handy if it was. 
> 
> It was easier to add the missing 's' those two places in my .profile than 
> it was to fix all the links that would need to be fixed as I have plural 
> AppImages in that location now..
> 
> Now any bash shell that doesn't have the right $PATH seems to be fixable 
> by a ". $HOME/.profile".
> 
> Those of you with multiple users might want to become root and fix the 
> copy in /etc/skel so new users are also blessed. But you'll need to add 
> the whole if/fi stanza to it. It was missing in my copy here. And I just 
> checked a buster install, which didn't have it.
> 
> Was there a valid reason its not? Or is the idea too new?
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 


Well, thanks all.
I have tried appimage for the first time, it launched but obviously
there is something wrong with my system other than inkscape itself, so I
have to figure out what that is first.

For now, I mark this thread as "Solved".

Thank you.

A Man Without any Clue

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The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2021-03-05 09:10 +0100
  Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
  Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
    Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-03-05 15:00 +0100
      Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-03-05 17:00 +0100
        Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-03-05 20:40 +0100
      <Solved> Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2021-03-06 02:50 +0100
        Re: <Solved> Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-03-06 03:20 +0100
          Re: <Solved> Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian  stable A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2021-03-07 02:10 +0100

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