bill@WB4ALM-07:~$ dpkg -l \*libpoppler\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                        Version            Architecture       
Description
+++-===========================-==================-==================-===========================================================
ii  libpoppler-glib2            0.6.4-1ubuntu3.4   amd64              PDF 
rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
rc  libpoppler-glib4            0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2  amd64              PDF 
rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
ii  libpoppler-glib8:amd64      0.20.4-0ubuntu1    amd64              PDF 
rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
rc  libpoppler-qt4-3:amd64      0.18.4-1ubuntu2    amd64              PDF 
rendering library (Qt 4 based shared library)
rc  libpoppler19:amd64          0.18.4-1ubuntu2    amd64              PDF 
rendering library
ii  libpoppler2                 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.4   amd64              PDF 
rendering library
ii  libpoppler28:amd64          0.20.4-0ubuntu1    amd64              PDF 
rendering library
rc  libpoppler5                 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2  amd64              PDF 
rendering library


bill@WB4ALM-07:~$ dpkg -l \*libcairo\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                        Version            Architecture       
Description
+++-===========================-==================-==================-===========================================================
un  libcairo-dev                <none>                                (no 
description available)
ii  libcairo-gobject2:amd64     1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  amd64              The Cairo 
2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
ii  libcairo-gobject2:i386      1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  i386               The Cairo 
2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
ii  libcairo-perl               1.100-0ubuntu1     amd64              Perl 
interface to the Cairo graphics library
un  libcairo-ruby               <none>                                (no 
description available)
un  libcairo-ruby1.8            <none>                                (no 
description available)
ii  libcairo-script-interpreter 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  amd64              The Cairo 
2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
ii  libcairo2:amd64             1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  amd64              The Cairo 
2D vector graphics library
ii  libcairo2:i386              1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  i386               The Cairo 
2D vector graphics library
ii  libcairo2-dev               1.12.2-1ubuntu2.2  amd64              
Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
un  libcairo2-doc               <none>                                (no 
description available)
un  libcairomm-1.0-0            <none>                                (no 
description available)
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1:amd64      1.10.0-1ubuntu2    amd64              C++ 
wrappers for Cairo (shared libraries)
bill@WB4ALM-07:~$ 

I was on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and "accidentally" hit the upgrade button for
12.04.1 (wasn't prepared to do an upgrade at that time).  I went ahead
and let to do the install and immediately ran into a number of problems,
including the fact that the system would not reboot when the
installation was done.  All reboot attempts resulted in a black screen.
I was able to trace the problem to a missing command in GRUB (I had GRUB
1 with Ubuntu 10.04)

After fixing that problem about a week later GRUB was automatically
updated to GRUB2.

Personally I do not like the UNITY interface, it requires far too many clicks 
and menu for be to get anything done.
I added KDE per recommendations on several of the Ubuntu forums, and that 
worked for about a week until a MAJOR ubuntu update came thru and messed up 
KDE. So I "uninstalled" KDE and tried to use UNITY, but again found it not to 
my liking.  About that time I received an "announcement" that "gnome 3" was 
available (I do not remeber what the package was called.)  I installed that, 
and started getting a working system again (Took almost 3-4 weeks!!!)

After running with the GNOME3 (it always goes into FALLBACK mode,
because it thinks my graphics card (EVA nvidia GeForce 9600GTS) is not
3d capable - which it is...)  A suggestion was to upgrade once again to
12.10, which I did.

Things have been kinda stable since, and have found workarounds for all
of the little bugs (like having to run SYSLOG in a terminal screen to
get it to work at all, and having to put up with the missing timestamps
on each line 'cause they are displayed in white ink, on a white
background....)

I currently log on with GNOME and most things work - except for evince.
This is a major problem to me, as almost all of the documentation that I
use are in PDF files...  After some investigation I found "mupdf" which
allows me to view PDF files, but I can not print single pages when
needed or "Copy" selected information.  (no options for either).

As background, I am a retired Senior Systems Engineer/Programmer for
large scale IBM mainframes.  My knowledge of LINUX is limited to what I
have learned in the past 4-5 years.   I have 45+ years of experience in
Information Technology, and I really like LINUX.  In Fact, I found the
Ubuntu distros to be more reliable than most (with the exception of the
upgrade to 12.04, that is.)  I use this system to develop software, but
(unfortuantely) do not know C or C++ (yet!)

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Title:
  Evince fails to open PDF files. worked prior to Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
  [-WARNING **: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8:
  undefined symbol: cairo_mesh_pattern_begin_patch]

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