inkscape does not start

Bug #857026 reported by Juan Montoya
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #843038: Inkscape linker issue on x86_64. Edit Remove
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inkscape (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

inkscape crashes before showing any window nor message.

This is the output when running it from a terminal:
inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Inkscape version: 0.48.2-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu 11.10 beta

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: inkscape 0.48.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 22 23:05:22 2011
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Juan Montoya (th3pr0ph3t) wrote :
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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this. I think it's actually a duplicate of bug #843038. Please try running the following:

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

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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