I just upgraded my KDE to 4.3 in Sabayon via their internal updater. All went well except I cannot now open Inkscape. I am getting the error message:

inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libwpg-0.1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have tried several different ways of opening the app, and also removed and reinstalled it with the same result. The icon shows in the start menu and I get the bouncing icon when I click it. It also shows as an option when I use alt+f2 menu, but still no app opening. I am using the inkscape-0.47_pre3 version from my distro's repository.

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

have you checked if you have libwpg installed on your system? Search for it in synaptic package manager.

Thanks, pyrkos - that was it. When I did the upgrade of KDE it was through a version switch in Sabayon (Gentoo-based) from 4.2 to branch 5 and it must have gotten lost in the transition. Works great once again.

I appreciate your quick response.

I'm glad you got it sorted out!