no extension support due to missing lxml

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I can confirm this.

I'm using Win32 XP SP2. This happens with the daily builds from
"http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/". The latest one that I checked and it
didn't work was from 2nd of November 2007 (Inkscape0711021622.7z).

I can confirm it on linux too, but that message means that something needs to be installed, to make it work. When you use a daily build, you can expect that something doesn't work.

I can confirm this on OSX. But this doesn't seem to be a problem with the daily builds, but has been in the past stable releases as well. Whoever is compiling for distribution doesn't seem to have all of the libraries. Maybe the makefile isn't checking the Effects for dependencies.

for win32 I opened a separate BUG report because we can thread this differently and deliver the python extensions as well in the distribution package.
http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/178022

Sorry, this just isn't a bug. The extensions require lxml be installed.

 I am running Linux, and have the same problem, and it "is" a bug because I have everything being requested installed.

Geminiguy, perhaps you could provide more evidence to support your claim. What distro and version of linux do you run? What versions of python and lxml are installed? Do you have more than one version of python installed? What are the results of `which python`? What are the results of `python -c "import lxml"`?

This seems to be an old problem, but I still have it. Just installed the 0.48 pre-release on my Mac with OS X 10.6.4, but the problem remains. "Which python" in terminal mode gives 10.6.
I am a "normal" end user, not too familiar with unix, but I would very much appreciate it when this problem is solved. What do I wrong, what other people seem to do correctly?

Just for completeness, this is the message I get when I try some Extensions:

The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension. Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml

The "apt-get" option does not work ("command not found"), and when going to the http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/ site I get totally confused about what to do/download.

I found a "workaround" to this problem in bug Bug #482993, which worked for me