Fixing Inkscape Cannot Open EPS Files

For KDE Neon Linux distro users, this error when opening EPS files has appeared since Inkscape version 0.9.x, and I was confused looking for a solution because what I found was only answers in English and they were convoluted.

And this error reappeared since update 1.x. For those who experience this error when opening Inkscape, it is due to an incompatible Libpoppler. Just yesterday, when I updated my Linux library because I wanted to upgrade KDE Neon to version 20.04, but unfortunately, the size was quite large, I decided not to upgrade KDE Neon to the latest version. The problem arose because I also updated the libpoppler library to the latest version, and my Inkscape had an error when opening EPS files.

Because I forgot how to fix the error when opening EPS files in Inkscape, I searched on Google again, and luckily I found it instantly because it was already on @raniaamina’s blog.

Here is the terminal command I used to fix the error when opening EPS files in Inkscape.

sudo apt install libpoppler-glib8=0.62.0-2ubuntu2.10

And Inkscape ran smoothly when opening EPS files. However, the error will reappear if we update the library because libpoppler will also be updated. To prevent libpoppler from being updated, I used the following command.

sudo apt-mark hold libpoppler-glib8=0.62.0-2ubuntu2.10

If one day you want to update libpoppler, you must use the following command before updating.

sudo apt-mark hold libpoppler-glib8=0.62.0-2ubuntu2.10

I apologize if the tutorial on fixing Inkscape not being able to open EPS files is too long + includes my ramblings. That was just to lengthen the article I wrote and embed keywords.