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HELP WITH ADD-ONS

Asked by Allen

Hi,

I started a thread under “Inkscape” on this subject and got no help, I thought I would try casting my net a bit further here.

I am trying to apply the “add-on” Better Better DXF for Inkscape.
I have followed the advice of the folks at b2_dxf and been denied access to add or over write files in Inkscape, no “permission”.

Others have done this, I have no idea why I can't.

I should mention if terminal commands are required, I need pretty detailed instructions as I'm no expert when it comes to software stuff.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What files are you trying to write and to where in the file system?
Which release of Ubuntu is being used?
Thanks

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Allen (allenwg2005) said : 		#2

I'm actually trying to extract a zip file called Better better DXF from this site, http://tim.cexx.org/?p=590
I'm following the directions on this forum, http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,174552,174552

My path differs from the one on the forum, what I used was filesystem/usr/share/inkscape/extentions.
Matt Moses writes "inkscape/share/extensions", I can't find a share folder in inkscape but I did find the extension folder.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.4

I hope this helps.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

you will need:

gksudo nautilus /usr/share/inkscape/extentions

And you will get write access, the folder is root owned, when you opened the browser it ran as your user which has no access. If you run nautilus with gksudo it will run as root and you will get write access

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Or in terminal:

cd /usr/share/inkscape/extentions
sudo wget http://www.bobcookdev.com/inkscape/better_dxf_output.zip
sudo apt-get install unp
unp better_dxf_output.zip

Assuming the contents of the archive need to be in the root of this folder.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Firstly though, run:

sudo cp /usr/share/inkscape/extentions/simpletransform.py /usr/share/inkscape/extentions/simpletransform.py_old

As per:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,174552,174552

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Allen (allenwg2005) said : 		#6

Success, THANK YOU!!!