Update docs with 'Running Without Installing' instructions

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 Other platforms such as Windows and Mac require a lot more and are considered
 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:
+
+```bash
+ln -s . share/inkscape
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$PWD/../
+make -j4
+./bin/inkscape
+```
+
+This won't work for other platforms such as Windows and Mac, see above. But
+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.
+
 Required Dependencies
 =====================