I've found out that this problem (which also affected a couple of other apps) was probably caused by the unprecedented difficulties I've encountered during this system upgrade that resulted in having to do a fresh install (still with some difficulty) It seems during installation the package "libgtkmm-2.4-1v5" did not install properly (with only files copied to "/var/lib/dpkg/info" showing that it was installed and an empty directory under "/usr/share/doc/", nothing more, i.e. the essential files under "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" missing), and reinstallation of this package did the trick :-) Thanks anyway...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635967 Title: [Solved] Inkscape does not start in ubuntu 16.10 Status in Inkscape: Incomplete Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 with inkscape 0.91-11 installed from official repositories. Unfortunately Inkscape fails to start - with the following error message in Terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1635967/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
