On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:09:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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.
Good point Bob. And the others, of course, are right that this points to either a config file corruption _or_ some _serious_ problems if running inkscape can cause system damage. I got distracted by the problem of how to reinstll the whole batch of packages. A
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