#1 2018-06-24 12:49:48

Sprinterdriver

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Registered: 2018-06-21

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installing Inkscape fails [solved]

Hi.

I have attemted to install Inkscape on my BunsenLabs computer. I'm interrested to install the most recent version, so I tried to following the following guide:
https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-instal … ebian-9-0/

sprinterdriver@takkfaen:~$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted)
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
sprinterdriver@takkfaen:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources [351 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages [372 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en [271 kB] 
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [145 kB]   
Hit:3 https://eu.pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium InRelease
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main i386 Packages [362 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [170 kB]
Hit:6 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease     
Fetched 1,857 kB in 4s (410 kB/s)                         
Reading package lists... Done
sprinterdriver@takkfaen:~$ sudo apt-get install inkscape
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package inkscape is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'inkscape' has no installation candidate
sprinterdriver@takkfaen:~$ 

Not shown above, the insertion of four lines at /etc/apt/sources.list was done prior to the above terminal output.

Last edited by Sprinterdriver (2018-06-24 18:01:25)

sleekmason

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Re: installing Inkscape fails [solved]

Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

sleekmason

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Re: installing Inkscape fails [solved]

repeat topic

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=4985

Last edited by sleekmason (2018-06-24 15:30:27)

Sprinterdriver

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Re: installing Inkscape fails [solved]

Thank you.

When posted the thread I wasn't aware that this issue probably is related to the other thread I made.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=4985

After following the instruction given in that thread, I was also able to install Inkscape. SOLVED.