title: Freehand Drawing in Linux: Inkscape link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/freehand-drawing-in-linux-inkscape/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 535 created: 2008/05/08 04:15:05 created_gmt: 2008/05/08 04:15:05 comment_status: open post_name: freehand-drawing-in-linux-inkscape status: publish post_type: post

Freehand Drawing in Linux: Inkscape

It’s probably been a couple of years since I had to do any freehand drawing on a computer, but recently I needed to work up a page with some nice graphics and decided something home made would look better than any of the images I found on the web.

There are some older Motif based drawing programs out there, but while Googling around for them I stumbled on Inkscape.

A simple “yum install inkscape” got me going, all including the obligatory dependencies:

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============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
============================================================================
Installing:
 inkscape                x86_64     0.46-1.el5.rf    rpmforge           20 M
Installing for dependencies:
 ImageMagick-c++         x86_64     6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1  updates           144 k
 ImageMagick-perl        x86_64     6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1  updates           147 k
 cairomm                 x86_64     1.2.4-1.el5.rf   rpmforge          179 k
 glibmm24                x86_64     2.12.8-1.el5.rf  rpmforge          831 k
 gtkmm24                 x86_64     2.10.9-1.el5.rf  rpmforge          7.1 M
 libEMF                  x86_64     1.0.3-1.el5.rf   rpmforge          271 k
 libgc                   x86_64     1:7.0-1.el5.rf   rpmforge          234 k
 libsigc++20             x86_64     2.0.17-1.el5.rf  rpmforge          1.8 M
 libwpg                  x86_64     0.1.2-1.el5.rf   rpmforge          450 k
 perl-SVG                noarch     2.37-1.el5.rf    rpmforge           83 k
 perl-SVG-Parser         noarch     1.01-1.el5.rf    rpmforge           26 k
 perl-Wx                 x86_64     0.81-1.el5.rf    rpmforge          4.7 M
 perl-XML-RegExp         noarch     0.03-1.2.el5.rf  rpmforge          8.0 k
 perl-XML-XQL            noarch     0.68-2.el5.rf    rpmforge          109 k
 plotutils               x86_64     2.5-1.el5.rf     rpmforge          3.3 M
 pstoedit                x86_64     3.45-1.el5.rf    rpmforge          1.5 M

`

Quite a list! One of the best arguments I’ve seen yet for configuring and maintaining yum.

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