Hi, I don't think that this is an inkscape problem. The error is : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document but the correct declaration : <?xml version="1.0"?> is at the start of /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/render_barcode.inx. If <?xml version="1.0"?> is removed from the start of render_barcode.inx then inkscape will complain about /usr/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg having the same problem, which is incorrect. The problem appears to be libxml2. The package that causes the problem here was libxml2 (2.7.4.dfsg-1). After downgrading libxml2 (2.7.4.dfsg-1) to the previous version of libxml2 from /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.7.3.dfsg-2+b1_i386.deb, inkscape started fine.
So a quick fix is to downgrade libxml2 a version using dpkg -i on the previous version stored in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I don't think that this is an inkscape problem but I can confirm this bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

