Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 um 07:38:45, schrieb John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> > I tried your suggestions. > librsvg2-bin seems to have installed successfully > > Inkscape aborted. > > This is weird indeed. I loaded the ubuntu software gui and it reports that > inkscape is, indeed, installed but I cannot launch it.
I would try to purge inkscape first.
> On the other hand synaptic is saying that a) it is not installed, and b) is
> reporting a problem that I don't know how to resolve. Please see attached
> screenshot.
I see.
But I think, you even don't need inkscape.
> I am beginning to wonder if I have a mangeled Ubuntu 17.04 installation or
> a corrupt LyX installation or both
> ##=====================================##
> jrkrideau@jrk-T420:~$ sudo apt-get install inkscape
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package inkscape is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
>
> E: Package 'inkscape' has no installation candidate
> ##=====================================##
>
Inkscape is only used by lyx, if it is found.
Try to reconfigure lyx.
Kornel
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