Installing Sozi

The most recent version is 12.05 (May 2012).

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Sozi is available in repositories for the following distributions :

• Archlinux (AUR)
• Ubuntu (PPA)
• Debian

First install Inkscape and PyGTK using the package manager of your distribution.

Inkscape extensions can be installed in two different locations:

• in the extensions folder for all users (/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/)
• in your home folder (~/.config/inkscape/extensions)

Unzip the archive sozi-release-x.y.zip and copy all files whose name begins with “sozi” into your chosen location.

If you are updating from version 10.x, you should also remove files sozi_install.inx, sozi_install.py, sozi_edit_frame.inx and sozi_edit_frame.py from the installation folder.

Start or relaunch Inkscape. You should now see a submenu “Sozi” in the “Extensions” menu.

You can now create your first presentation.

These instructions have been tested with Inkscape 0.48, Python 2.6.6 and PyGTK 2.22.

1. Download and install Inkscape. The default installation location is C:\Program Files\Inkscape.
2. Download and install PyGTK (choose the "all-in-one" installer for Python 2.6). The default installation location is C:\Python26.
3. Copy all files from C:\Python26 to C:\Program Files\Inkscape\python.
4. Unzip the archive sozi-release-x.y.zip and copy all files whose name begins with “sozi” to C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions.

If you are updating from version 10.x, you should also remove files sozi_install.inx, sozi_install.py, sozi_edit_frame.inx and sozi_edit_frame.py from the installation folder.

Start or relaunch Inkscape. You should now see a submenu “Sozi” in the “Extensions” menu.

You can now create your first presentation.

Damien Riquet provides detailed instructions to install Sozi on MacOS X Lion with the official release of Inkscape. This is the recommended method.

An alternative way to install Inkscape and Sozi on MacOS X consists in using the Fink distribution. However, the complete installation process can take several hours.

1. Install Fink. During the setup process, enable the “unstable” tree.
2. Install Inkscape, lxml and PyGTK by typing the following command in a terminal window:

     fink install inkscape python lxml-py27 pygtk2-gtk-py27

3. Unzip the archive sozi-release-x.y.zip and copy all files whose name begins with “sozi” to /sw/share/inkscape/extensions.

If you are updating from version 10.x, you should also remove files sozi_install.inx, sozi_install.py, sozi_edit_frame.inx and sozi_edit_frame.py from the installation folder.

Start or relaunch Inkscape (using the command line). You should now see a submenu “Sozi” in the “Extensions” menu.

You can now create your first presentation.