Installing Sozi

Installation on GNU/Linux

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

Copy all files whose names begin with "sozi" from the archive sozi-release-[...].zip into one of these folders:

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.

Installation on Windows

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 Python. The default installation location is C:\Python26.
  3. Download and install PyGTK (choose the "all-in-one" installer for Python 2.6). PyGTK is added to the Python installation tree.
  4. Copy all files from C:\Python26 to C:\Program Files\Inkscape\python.
  5. Copy all files whose names begin with "sozi" from the archive sozi-release-[...].zip into 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.

Installation on MacOS X

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

Using Fink (not recommended)

Currently, the most straightforward 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. Copy all files whose names begin with "sozi" from the archive sozi-release-[...].zip into /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.