Skencil / Download

The Skencil Project is looking for packaging help. We hope to provide current binary packages for many systems from this page or point people to the packages for their distribution.

Unstable binaries might be available from the development page.

Skencil

You can download Skencil either in source form or as binaries. Please note that Skencil needs some additional software to run, some of which is probably not yet installed on your system. See below for more information.

Sources:

Tarball: skencil-0.6.17.tar.gz

The tarball contains installation instructions and some documentation.
For building on Mac OS X, see Running Skencil on Mac OS X by Stewart Midwinter.

Binaries (current)

Fedora Core 4,3,2,1; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,3 and Red Hat 9,8

Axel Thimm has picked up Skencil for in his ATrpms apt / yum repository. You might want Skencil and PIL.

Debian

Daniel Baumann is the maintainer for the Skencil Debian packages.

A backported package for sarge is available on backports.org

Add the following line to your sourcelist:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main

Thanks to Gregor Hoffleit (former Debian Maintainer).

Suse 9.2 9.1 9.0 8.2

Joel Biddier offers Suse packages and nice installation tutorials. Hint: Check out the blue links at the top.

Other software

Python and Python Extensions

The python interpreter is not included in the Skencil sources. You have to download and install it separately. You need at least version 1.5.1.

In addition to the interpreter itself, you need the Python Imaging Library (PIL).

Sources:

If you want to compile python yourself, download the sources of the interpreter and the PIL:

http://python.org/download/
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm

If you want to use the SVG import filter, you also need the Python XML package. This package is optional, you don't need it for anything other that the SVG import filter.

If you want to use the PDF export filter, you also need reportlab. This package is optional, you don't need it for anything other than the PDF export filter.

Binaries:

GNU/Linux Distributions:

Most recent Linux distributions include a suitable Python interpreter but not the PIL. Some distributions split the Python interpreter into several packages. You need to install the packages that install the interpreter proper and the Tk interface Tkinter. If you want to compile Skencil or the PIL yourself, you may also have to install a 'python-devel' package.

Red Hat

7.x: python-imaging-1.1.3-2ajg-rh7x.i386.rpm
8.x: python-imaging-1.1.3-2ajg-rh8x.i386.rpm

Both RPMs were built by Andy Grimberg.

Slackware

PIL 1.1.3 (Slackware 8.1)
Other Slackware packages

All the Slackware packages were built by Jeffrey Boser. If there are problems, you can reach him at verin@lvcm.com.

Tcl/Tk

It is likely that you have this already, but if not, you can get it from

http://www.scriptics.com/software/download.html

Any version from 8.0 to 8.3 should work.