Inkscape missing libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 dependency

[seanyseansean]

I've clean installed Oneiric Ocelot beta 1 (x64). After installing Inkscape, it doesn't start. Running it from the terminal I get:

"inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

However, package libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a is pulled in. Any ideas?

[seanyseansean (seany)]

Further info: i've just reinstalled the lib:

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a

... and it now works fine. This was definitely already installed, and the system is a basic x64 running Unity 3D. No other packages added apart from inkscape.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Thanks for the report. Please could you run the following command to gather some extra information about your Inkscape installation?

apport-collect 842564

[Tyler Wright (mail-tylerwright)]

This bug affected me, seanyseanyseany's fix worked for me too

[daveclubb (daveclubb)]

As for Tyler, same problem and fix worked. Thanks

[Alex (zk118243)]

This is still the case in 12.04 32 bit.

[Viktor Pal (deere)]

This is still the case in 14.04, fresh install.

The package state is installed:
# dpkg -l libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
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 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a:amd64 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu1 amd64 C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libraries)

But the files are all missing:
# dpkg -L libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a | xargs -n 1 ls -lad
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Feb 10 22:07 /.
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 26 23:12 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 188 root root 24576 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x 84 root root 69632 Feb 12 01:31 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0: No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-x 298 root root 12288 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/share
drwxr-xr-x 1910 root root 69632 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/share/doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 26 23:47 /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/copyright: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/AUTHORS: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/NEWS.gz: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/README: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/changelog.Debian.gz: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: No such file or directory

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Nick (xepecine)]

Fresh install 16.04 same story.

$inkscape
inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1v5
fixed the problem.

[KhoPhi (khophi)]

On 18.04, Re install doesn't fix the issue.
Something is fundamentally broken with 18.04.

Many of the applications that worked on 16.04 no longer work. Inkscape, Virtualbox, VLC, etc. All complains of missing something something.

[Genc Tato (gtato6)]

Confirm that it is not working on 18.04