I am having the same issue when installing Inkscape Trunk:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
inkscape : Depends: libmagick++-6.q16-6v6 (>= 8:6.9.2.3) but it is not
installable
Recommends: libwmf-bin
Recommends: perlmagick
Recommends: python-numpy but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-scour but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-uniconvertor but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686345
Title:
apt-get libmagick++-6.q16-6v6 depend missing
Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Ubuntu Gnome 17.04, apt update-ed
When installing inkscape with apt install inkscape, the installation
fails complaining on missing depends:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
inkscape : Depends: libmagick++-6.q16-6v6 (>= 8:6.9.2.3) but it is not
installable
Recommends: libwmf-bin
Recommends: perlmagick
Recommends: python-lxml but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-numpy but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-scour but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-uniconvertor but it is not going to be
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
It seems that libmagick++-6.q16-6v6 was removed from 17.04 but
inkscape package is not updated
version info:
inkscape:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.92.1+66~ubuntu17.04.1
Version table:
0.92.1+66~ubuntu17.04.1 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.dev/stable/ubuntu zesty/main
amd64 Packages
0.92.1-1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
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