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On 23 August 2017 at 09:01, John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh just had a look at my ppa file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/" and the > entries seem to have no connection with the errors reported in my last > post. > > Am I missing another ppa file? > > On 23 August 2017 at 08:47, John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Tried a purge (looked successful) and a reconfigure. >> >> Same error. >> ##======================================## >> >> An error occurred while running: >> >> Rscript --verbose --no-save --no-restore $$s/scripts/lyxknitr.R >> >> "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.SpjIUqEQ9242/lyx_tmpbuf0/""LyXnewfile1.Rnw" >> >> "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.SpjIUqEQ9242/lyx_tmpbuf0/""LyXnewfile1.tex" ISO-8859-15 >> >> "/home/jrkrideau/" >> >> 08:22:12.888: Error while exporting format: PDF (pdflatex) >> >> 08:23:02.090: (dialog-toggle progress) >> >> ##========================================## >> >> >> I does annoy me that I cannot install Inkscape. I am pretty sure I had it >> installed under Ubuntu 16.04 and an upgrade should not have removed it. >> >> Synaptic is showing a couple of unloaded Inkscape dependencies but not >> the main Inkscape program. >> >> I just tried an reload of the synaptic data base and am getting some >> nasty messages that I have no idea how to interpret. They seem to mirror >> messages I get when doing a *sudo apt update*. >> >> Please see attached screenshot >> >> >> >> On 23 August 2017 at 08:15, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> John Kane >> Kingston ON Canada >> > > > > -- > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
