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I had this error for a very long time when trying to use extensions in Inkscape 0.46 for Mac OS X:
“The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension”
After many hours of trying to find a solution I got it to work. This is what I did:
sudo easy_install lxml
cd /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib
mv libxml2.2.dylib libxml2.2.dylib.old
ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.dylib
cd /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib
mv libxml2.2.dylib libxml2.2.dylib.old
ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.dylib
After that, all extensions (those found under the effects menu) started to work.
Update:
The problem seems to be fixed on the latest development version.
Update 2:
Fixed typo. Thanks to Bill Gathen for your comment.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Excellent, thanks!
July 28th, 2009 at 5:02 am
I am really frustrated with Inkscape on my MAC for the same kinds of problems. Unfortunatelly I cannot use your tip because: I do not have the command easy-install and I cannot find it in Macports and my inkscape port did not result in anything in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib and I do not know where to find the file libxml2.2.dylib of inkscape. Could you please help me?
July 28th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Try searching for “setuptools” in macports and install that, then you’ll have the easy_install command. I’m no tusing the Inkscape port but the version from their website. Try also installing the latest development version, it seems to be working without a problem. Else try searching in /opt/local/ for libxml2.2.dylib it might be there (that’s where macports installs the software).
September 21st, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@Stefano I think there’s a typo in the solution. It’s easy_install on my system (Leopard), not easy-install.
The fix didn’t get me working, but my build is from March 2008.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Thanks for your correction! Posted an update to the article.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Cool, It works!
Thank you!
November 15th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Thanks for posting. Your post was the first search hit and it worked swimmingly. Thanks!
December 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
One question: do you need the MacPorts version of Inkscape for this to work or should it work on the Mac version from the Inkscape website?
December 18th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I was using the 0.46 version from their website, but there’s a new 0.47 version now there, maybe it just works. I haven’t tried it yet.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:58 am
Thank you for posting this!!!
March 8th, 2010 at 5:32 am
I was very excited when I found this, but it didn’t work for me : (
Now I get:
Failed to import the numpy or numpy.linalg modules.
I’m using 0.47 and don’t seem to have any of these path effects available under Extension
March 8th, 2010 at 5:38 am
Also : is it a problem that when I tried to install the lxml I got:
NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated ‘src/lxml/lxml.etree.c’ needs to be available.
Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.24
March 19th, 2010 at 6:29 am
it works, after many month attempting to find a solution, thank you
March 27th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Worked great for me, but like Vincent I got an error about numpy. I needed to install it:
$ sudo easy_install -U numpy
Then things seemed to work ok.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:38 am
You made my day! Thank you very much for sharing this hint. It worked like charm for me. Also the numpy installation (see previous comment), despite a terribly long list of warnings, worked without problems. (Inkscape 0.47 r22583, built Nov 24 2009 on a Mac running OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D573)
June 20th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Hi,
Thank you for sharing this tip with us. I have just installed the last dev version (it says 0.48 in the Help/About), but I meet the same problem. I have MacPorts installed on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.6.4 French). I have also tried to execute the steps you indicate, they do not seem to solve the problem. So, I am afraid that some of us will continue to meet this problem even with the next version
June 30th, 2010 at 6:15 am
I tried this, but it didn’t work. No error messages when the commands were executed, but after that no improvement. Extensions still do not work.
I use an Imac 21.5 with OSX 10.6.4
July 5th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
For me it did not work in the 0.48 out of the box, neither any hints I googled help. So I found my own way:
http://blog.lrem.net/2010/07/05/fixing-inkscape-python-extensions/
August 27th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
After 4 days of being unable to get my Extensions working this was soooo refreshing. I had found another site, but it was for 10.5.8 so some of the steps worked, but none resulted in it working. But apparently after reading the comments perhaps the two together were what worked. I already had Macports installed and configured. But was having an issue with mine having been updated to autoconf 2.67 rather than the 2.61 that the instructions were built for. So since yesterday afternoon I was stuck.
Pleased I found this today, as it 100% worked and I am now back at making my graphics!
Thing that killed me was that I had just received my intuos4 medium wireless tablet and was unable to use the extensions…
but happy creating… thank you soooo much!
August 29th, 2010 at 1:27 am
Excellent. Made my day. Thanks a lot.