It does persist after restarting (or doing "sudo ldconfig" in that terminal) And creating symlinks named "/usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1" and "/usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1" to the existing "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdkmm-3.0.so.1" and "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtkmm-3.0.so.1" implies that there are actually underlying dependency problems which somehow didn't prevent my installation using terminal command "sudo apt-get inkscape -y"
-- 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: 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
