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| author | Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com> | 2017-06-15 03:25:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com> | 2017-06-15 03:25:01 +0000 |
| commit | 84e41f3e64b3b0c1ee70d15657960b9c9ab41fd8 (patch) | |
| tree | 74e735b507196009f81a6fe84b78ee9f7ad48b7f | |
| parent | Update docs with 'Running Without Installing' instructions (diff) | |
| download | inkscape-84e41f3e64b3b0c1ee70d15657960b9c9ab41fd8.tar.gz inkscape-84e41f3e64b3b0c1ee70d15657960b9c9ab41fd8.zip | |
Ammend Running Without Installing to seperate conf
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -40,14 +40,15 @@ a developer and packager task. These instructions are kept on the Inkscape wiki. Running Without Installing ========================== -For developers and others who want to run inskape without installing it: +For developers and others who want to run inkscape without installing it: ```bash ln -s . share/inkscape -mkdir build +mkdir -p build/conf cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$PWD/../ make -j4 +export INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR=$PWD/conf ./bin/inkscape ``` @@ -56,6 +57,9 @@ what it is doing is linking the share directory into a location where the inkscape binary will be able to find it. Allowing you to change the inkscape shared files without rebuilding or installing. +Then setting a local configuration directory, keeping your configurations +seperate from any installed version. + Required Dependencies ===================== |