Inkscape linker issue on x86_64

[David Coles]

The Inkscape package is linker dependencies. This prevents Inkscape from starting.

Looks like libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 and libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 are not being found even though the 64 bit library appears to be installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: inkscape 0.48.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 6 12:26:20 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[seanyseansean (seany)]

As in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/842564, reinstalling the binary brought it to life:

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

I did a reinstall of the whole OS and noticed the installer crashed right at the end. Maybe there's an issue with this library at install time?

[lisa d. metzger (absolutelylisa)]

the fix worked for me. t y v m

[David Coles (dcoles)]

Reinstalling libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a also fixed the issue for me.

This was also on a clean install of 11.10 beta and now that you mention it, I think I also had the installer crash.

This might make this bug invalid, or at least a symptom of another bug.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

It sounds very much like this is an issue with the ubiquity installer package crashing, rather than with inkscape or gtkmm so I'll mark this as invalid. If this still occurs with new Ubuntu installations, it may be worth filing a new bug against ubiquity.

[George Karakostas (gckarakostas)]

I confirm this happened with 12.04 precise, upgraded with ubiquity.

[Марко М. Костић (marko-m-kostic)]

Inkscape wasn't starting. From the console: "inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

Execuiting of "apt-get install --reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a" fixes this error.

Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit. Clean install.

[Marlin Cremers (marlinc)]

I'm currently having this issue on Xenial.

[Marlin Cremers (marlinc)]

Installing libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 solved the issue.

[RobotOfBarr (rwall)]

Also present in 16.04 LTS, resolved similarly by installing libgtkmm-2.4-1v5

[CUYNAT (alain-cuynat)]

Also present in 16.10, resolved similarly by re-installing libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 with Synaptic

[Novikov Andrey (envek)]

Also, present in 17.04 after installer crash during setting up full disk encryption by community manual: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManualFullSystemEncryption

Reinstall of libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 helps.

[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.