How To Install Latest Inkscape from PPA

Below we provide instructions about how to install latest version of Inkscape in Ubuntu via PPA. This PPA is a stable version (as opposite of trunk version), so it is supported officially by Inkscape developer. You will need this to have new release of Inkscape when it is not available yet in official Ubuntu repository. Thanks to Inkscape Developer Team for providing this PPA.

To Add PPA and Install Inkscape

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/trunk
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape

Note: when you perform installation from PPA, apt-get will automatically download and install the latest version from PPA you've added. This includes upgrading the currently installed Inkscape version in your system. For example, when we write this article, Inkscape version in this PPA is 0.91.0. If your current system has 0.48, then you will upgrade it into 0.91.0 according to this PPA. For further information about this PPA, please visit the official web page https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable.

To Remove PPA

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:inkscape.dev/trunk
sudo apt-get update

Note: this will delete the PPA you've added (inkscape.dev/trunk) from system and then reload the repositories configuration.