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I have been using the render-latex option in Inkscape for many years happily. Now, after some updates I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "eqtexsvg.py", line 160, in e.affect() File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 283, in affect self.effect() File "eqtexsvg.py", line 154, in effect svg_open(self, svg_file) File "eqtexsvg.py", line 81, in svg_open doc = inkex.etree.parse(filename) File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3426, in lxml.etree.parse File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1839, in lxml.etree._parseDocument File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1865, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1769, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1162, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 600, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 710, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 637, in lxml.etree.raiseParseError IOError: Error reading file '/tmp/inkscape-MvWHN/eq.svg': failed to load external entity "/tmp/inkscape-MvWHN_/eq.svg"

I updated Ghostscript to version 9.26 and I have Inkscape version 0.92.4. In addition, I have installed `pdf2svg' as suggested in this question.

Does anybody have a clue how to solve this issue?

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TL;DR - it is bug 1759483.

I have followed LaTeX guide from Inkscape wiki, so I installed

sudo apt-get install texlive pstoedit

then I launched Inkspace, selected Extensions → Render → LaTeX and I can't get it working on Ubuntu 18.10, 19.04 and 19.10.

So it is a known bug 1759483.

Installation of latest version of Inkscape from official PPA, Snap or FlatHub does not help either.

But it works on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS.

N0rbert
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To solve this bug I I built this docker container There's an example included, too.

Ludwig Prager
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