John Culleton wrote: > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net > install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two > questions: > 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first? Inkscape 0.48 was just released a few days ago on August 23rd. That is very new! > 2. How do I upgrade to that release? Normally new packages would first enter Unstable, then after ten days with no release critical bugs would transition to Testing. When Testing is in a good release state as a whole it is released as the newest Stable (about every two years). During the release lifetime Stable will be held stable and won't change. http://www.debian.org/releases/ Since you are wishing something released upstream just a few days ago then the normal thing would be to compile it yourself. Start by installing all of the build dependencies of the current inkscape. Then during the build install any additional dependencies that you don't already have. $ sudo apt-get install build-dep inkscape $ sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev ... get latest from http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en ... $ cd inkscape-0.48.0 $ ./configure --with-gnome-vfs --enable-lcms $ make $ ./src/inkscape If you are in the 'staff' group you can 'make install' to install the bits into your /usr/local/ directory without needing to be root. Bob
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