apt-get libmagick++-6.q16-6v6 depend missing

[James]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Well, the problem is not of the package in ubuntu, which is correctly built against libmagick++-6.q16-7 instead of libmagick++-6.q16-6v6.

Whoever maintains the PPA ppa:inkscape.dev/stable has to do another upload to rebuild inkscape there.
Subscribing ~bryce who did the last upload there

[Jurgen Gaeremyn (jurgen-gaeremyn)]

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.

[Jurgen Gaeremyn (jurgen-gaeremyn)]

Correction - when trying to install "inkscape" from the Trunk PPA (inkscape-trunk installs fine)

[pbhj (pbhj)]

Still the same for me. I installed 0.92.1 on Ubuntu 17.04-Zesty by using "apt-get download" to get the inkscape and libgtkspell0 debs, installing the available libmagick++-6.q16-7 in the usual way ("sudo apt-get install ...") and then doing `sudo dpkg -i --force-depends ./inkscape*.deb` and same for libgtkspell0. Then creating a link with `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMagick++-6.Q16.so.{7,6}` and running `sudo ldconfig`.
It appears to work.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Should be fixed by a manual rebuild...

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Now building

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Fixed in the stable PPA (inkscape-0.92.1+69)

Please run

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

to pull the latest version