libpoppler64 uninstallable on Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)

[Daniel Li]

When I try to install Inkscape (v0.92) on my Ubuntu 17.10 OS, it fails as libpoppler64 is not available for this Ubuntu version.

$ sudo apt install inkscape
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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: libpoppler64 (>= 0.48.0) 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.

The libpoppler64 package has been replaced by the libpoppler68 package (https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/libpoppler68) on Ubuntu 17.10.

A suggested fix would be to install libpoppler68, and if that is unavailable, use libpoppler64.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Where is this package you are trying to install coming from?

Of course the inkscape 0.92 available in the official Ubuntu repository has appropriate dependencies...
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/amd64/inkscape/0.92.2-1build1

[Daniel Li (d4nyll)]

As per the instructions on the website, I used the PPA as instructed at https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Ok, then it's upstream's thing (they did the build in August, but in early September there was the relevant poppler transition in Ubuntu artful - regular business in a development release); reassigning back, they only need to do a no-change (well, bumping the version) upload to artful.

Please consider the provide of the binaries every time you file a bug unless it's clear what it is referring to.

BTW, IMHO there is no need to use the PPA in artful, as the version is the very same and the differences in the building negligible.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Stable PPA rebuild queued

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Should be fixed in inkscape - 0.92.2+68

[Daniel Li (d4nyll)]

Thank you all. I can confirm it works with the PPA now.