--- inkex.py.orig	2010-07-05 23:06:09.000000000 +0200
+++ inkex.py	2010-07-05 23:09:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
 
 try:
     from lxml import etree
-except:
-    sys.exit(_('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'))
+except Exception, e:
+    sys.exit(_("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\n\nTechnical details:\n%s" % (e,)))
 
 def debug(what):
     sys.stderr.write(str(what) + "\n")