Latex for Inkscape

For some reason the default renderer for Latex equations in Inkscape stopped working for me (I think it used to work ...). In any case, I just installed the textext extension. I thought I'd post the steps that worked for me. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

1. Install pdf2svg. I don't know if this was necessary. I already had pstoedit installed, but I was first trying to fix eqtexsvg which I believe ships with Inkscape. I followed the instructions provided at http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html verbatim.
2. Download the textext tar ball from http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/textext/.
3. Unarchive, and copy textext.inx and textext.py to /usr/share/inkscape/extensions . Note that the installation instructions claimed that you could put this in $HOME/.inkscape/extensions, but the extensions subdirectory did not exist for me and creating one and placing the relevant files inside did nothing. This was the only confusing part of the installation.