Install using .deb not working on Ubuntu 20.04 with inkscape 1.02

[concretedog]

First of all, many thanks for your work this amazing extension, its a fabulous tool.

Following the instructions for install on ubuntu 20.04 I downloaded the .deb (having installed python3 -usb) and installed and it didn't work/appear in inkscape 1.02. I resolved this by following the later install for other debian based distros and manually unzipping and adding the folder and two files to .config/inkscape/extensions, works perfectly now.

Thanks again.

[t0b3]

@concretedog did you get any error messages? or did the deb install correctly? [need more info]
what would need to be changed?
please feel free to make a PR...

[concretedog]

So I tired to install using the instructions on the readme and double clicked the downloaded .deb, it launched into the Ubuntu Software application and appeared to install correctly, no error messages, then opening inkscape there was no sign of the extension, using the other method of copy pasting from the downloaded zip worked though. I am definitely not skilled enough to make a PR :) Just wanted to feedback my experience so fee free to close.

[t0b3]

a) what is the output of dpkg -L inkscape-silhouette | grep /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/?
b) which directory is in Inkscape Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> System -> Inkscape extensions?

[concretedog]

The output of dpkg is
/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/sendto_silhouette.inx /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/sendto_silhouette.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/Geometry.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/Graphtec.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/Strategy.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/StrategyMinTraveling.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__init__.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__ /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/Geometry.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/Graphtec.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/Strategy.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/StrategyMinTraveling.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/__pycache__/convert2dashes.cpython-38.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/beutil.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/convert2dashes.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2 /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/__init__.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/__init__.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_debug.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_debug.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_interop.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_interop.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_lookup.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_lookup.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_objfinalizer.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/_objfinalizer.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/__init__.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/__init__.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/libusb0.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/libusb0.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/libusb1.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/libusb1.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/openusb.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/backend/openusb.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/control.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/control.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/core.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/core.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/legacy.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/legacy.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/libloader.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/libloader.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/util.py /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette/pyusb-1.0.2/usb/util.pyc /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette_multi.inx /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/silhouette_multi.py

[concretedog]

Ah the inkscape extensions are here via the preferences - system path
/snap/inkscape/8746/share/inkscape/extensions

[t0b3]

snap packages won't work without adapting the preferences

[twmr]

So, you've installed inkscape using a snap pkg, but the extension using a deb pkg. I don't think that it makes sense that this is supported by the inkscape-silhouette deb pkg. We could create a separate snap pkg for it, but I think we should avoid that.