Bug#798341: [inkscape] impossible to install inkscape

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Tsu Jan,

inkscape can be installed in sid without any issues:

# apt update
Hit http://http.debian.net sid InRelease
Hit http://http.debian.net sid/main Sources
Hit http://http.debian.net sid/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://http.debian.net sid/main Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

# apt install inkscape
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gawk gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-mime-data
  libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libavahi-glib1 libcairomm-1.0-1v5
  libcdr-0.1-1 libgc1c2 libgconf-2-4 libglibmm-2.4-1v5
  libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra
  libgsl0ldbl libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 libgtkspell0
  libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl
  libpangomm-1.4-1v5 libperl5.20 libpoppler-glib8
  librevenge-0.0-0 libsigsegv2 libvisio-0.1-1 libwmf-bin
  libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3 python-bs4 python-lxml
  transfig
Suggested packages:
  gawk-doc gconf-defaults-service dia dia-gnome libsvg-perl
  libxml-xql-perl python-uniconvertor libgnomevfs2-bin
  gsl-ref-psdoc gsl-doc-pdf gsl-doc-info gsl-ref-html
  imagemagick-doc python-lxml-dbg python-lxml-doc xfig        
The following NEW packages will be installed:                 
  gawk gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-mime-data     
  inkscape libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libavahi-glib1                    
  libcairomm-1.0-1v5 libcdr-0.1-1 libgc1c2 libgconf-2-4       
  libglibmm-2.4-1v5 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common        
  libgnomevfs2-extra libgsl0ldbl libgtkmm-2.4-1v5             
  libgtkspell0 libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl  
  libpangomm-1.4-1v5 libperl5.20 libpoppler-glib8             
  librevenge-0.0-0 libsigsegv2 libvisio-0.1-1 libwmf-bin      
  libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3 python-bs4 python-lxml          
  transfig
0 upgraded, 33 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.2 MB/27.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 151 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

That you currently cannot do so indicates that you have packages installed 
that you should not have installed.

* Have you done an upgrade and dist-upgrade recently?

* Have you taken the opportunity to remove packages that are no longer 
installable? There's a chance that you have old libraries around that you no 
longer need. (apt-get autoremove can help with this).

* Have you actually removed the packages from deb-multimedia? You said 
earlier that you removed that entry from your sources.list but that is not 
the same thing as removing the problematic packages. The output of "aptitude 
search ~o" or "aptitude search ~Vdmo" might help find them.

> If this is a real question, you could ask Manjaro's maintainers. The
> same "transition" happened there and I didn't even notice it. Not a
> single broken package! Or is Manjaro sh*t too, as Matteo believed about
> deb-multimedia.org?

This is precisely the sort of problems that having packages from deb-
multimedia.org installed causes. (Those packages are also good at causing 
random crashes that are very hard to debug -- it's not hard to see why 
maintainers aren't interested in bug reports from systems that have these 
packages installed).

cheers
Stuart


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