Re: libraries in debian BROKEN by working with Adobe SVG

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> stuseven wrote:
> > My question is:  what libraries need to be refreshed or replaced
> > to get Inkscape in Debian working again ?  Note - reinstalling
> > Inkscape does not fix this problem.
> 
> no, you need to reinstall its dependencies, most likely. 
> 
> My bash/sed/awk foo is pretty weak, but this produces what I think are
> the desired results:
> ...
> apt-cache depends inkscape | awk '/Depends/{ print $2 }' | xargs \
> aptitude reinstall

Additionally it might be useful to check 'debsums' to see if it can
detect if there is corruption of other files.

  apt-get install debsums

  debsums -c

Unfortunately not all packages contain md5sums (24 miss the
information on my system, see 'debsums -l') but for those that do this
is useful to detect inadvertant system changes.  Newly installed or
reinstalled packages will have debsums generated upon installation.
You might want 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall $(debsums -l)' to
force all packages to keep an md5sum.

Bob