Wow! Amazing level of help here.

Thanks Moini and Xav. I'll take at those links when I get some time later.

Brilliant advice Moini - thanks very much for your help. Very impressed both with Inkscape and the support here.

Thanks Moini - very useful advice and links. I'll have a look at the possibilities. Interesting thought to install from Debian Testing - I wonder whether that would destroy the working version of Inkscape I currently have (0.48). One of the reasons I was looking into building from source is I could ...

Thanks for your reply Brynn. Using an installer for the latest version of Inkscape isn't really possible on my system - GNU Linux Debian 7 (Wheezy) - unless you know of a deb that will work? There is a package for an older version of Inkscape in Debian 7, but I like Inkscape so much that I want to u...

Thank you V1nce - your advice resolved that issue! However, I just ran ./configure again and got a load more issues: configure: error: Package requirements (bdw-gc >= 7.1 cairo >= 1.10 cairomm-1.0 >= 1.9.8 glib-2.0 >= 2.28 glibmm-2.4 >= 2.28 giomm-2.4 gsl gthread-2.0 >= 2.0 libpng >= 1.2 libxml-2.0 ...

Thanks for your reply V1nce. I installed freetype2-demos (2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2) from Synaptic, but when I ran ./configure I got exactly the same error message as in my original post - error: Cannot find freetype-config

Hello. I'm trying to build Inkscape 0.91 on Debian 7 (Wheezy). When I run ./configure I'm getting the error: configure: error: Cannot find freetype-config I have libfreetype6 installed on my system but can't find freetype-config anywhere. I can run Inkscape 0.48 on my system, and am enjoying that so...