How to install Latest stable Inkscape 0.48.5 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Inkscape is an award winning and cross-platform software project that provides you with a professional-grade SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor application, which sole purpose is to be an open source and completely free alternative to commercial products with similar capabilities, such as Visio, Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.
Features at a glance
Key features include object creation, object manipulation, fill and stroke, operations on paths, text support and rendering. It includes a pencil tool, a pen tool, calligraphy tool, a shape tool for creating rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars and spirals, a text tool, embedded bitmaps and clone creator.
Additionally, the application allows the user to move, scale, rotate, skew, raise, lower, group and align objects, as well as to manipulate layers. Other useful tools include path markers, dashed strokes, pattern fills, color selector, color selector, gradient editor, node editor, path converter and simplification, bitmap tracing, and boolean operations.
Another interesting feature is the ability to export drawings to the PNG, PDF (Portable Document Format), OpenDocument Drawing, AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Exchange Format), PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and sK1 file formats.
How to install Latest stable Inkscape 0.48.5 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Because it is available via PPA, installing Inkscape 0.48.4 (stable) on the listed Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the inkscape package. Like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape
Also, if you are a bleeding edge software enthusiast, you can install Inkscape 0.49 (unstable) on your Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, via a third party PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cafuego/inkscapeIf you prefer, you can install inkscape from source : Download sourcecode
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape
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