Comment 4 for bug 479944

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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote : Re: import of text file fails

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I'm not aware of how to import *.txt files. The file type is not listed in the "File->Import..." or "File->Open..>" dialogs.

Attempting to open/import a txt file by using "All Files" from either of these dialogs just gives me a dialog with the message: "Failed to load the requested file /home/alex/Documents/Text/text.txt"

On a separate note, Ubuntu already Suggests libsvg-perl, which adds SVG.pm and fixes the problem in comment #2. The ideal solution would be to bump this up to "Recommends" status so that it is automatically installed along with Inkscape. However, this is not possible because Inkscape is a "main" package (i.e. officially supported) while libsvg-perl is a "universe" package (i.e. community supported).