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I had a pc with Ubuntu on it and it now has Ubuntu mate. This apparently caused changes to my system and when I tried to launch inkscape I got this error:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"

(inkscape:10640): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :19.0

I have tried to uninstall and reinstall inkscape via snap and via Software (I am not sure which software manager mate uses).

Also, have followed the proposed solutions in here but to no avail.

Is there something else I can try to make inkscape launchable again?

Edit:
This seems odd, but I also tried these solutions and they don't seem to either remove the other error messages.

Edit 2:
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with mate desktop added on top.

I have run the commands mentioned in the comment from how is inkscape installed: 

$dpkg -l inkscape
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                            Version              Architecture         Description
+++-===============================-====================-====================-====================================================================
un  inkscape                        <none>               <none>               (no description available)
$ snap list | grep -i inkscape
inkscape            0.92.4                      7378  latest/stable     inkscape*     -

which is confusing to me at least. I thought that I would find inkscape installed by dpkg since the last attempt was with Software from mate. And although it's declared as installed in my list in the command above it appears corrupted(?). Maybe this is the reason I cannot execute it?

Eypros
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  • What is your Ubuntu version? How did you installed Inkscape? What is the current source of Inkscape? Please add output of which inkscape, dpkg -l inkscape, snap list | grep -i inkscape to the question body. – N0rbert Apr 21 '20 at 20:51

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The un in output of dpkg -l means that it have the following queued actio

u = Unknown

and state

n = Not-installed

(see man dpkg-query for details).

So I would recommend to remove snapped Inkscape and install APT-based instead:

snap remove inkscape

sudo apt-get install inkscape
N0rbert
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  • ΟΚ, so the official way is nowadays by snap. And apart from a conflict for searching inkscape in snap folder (which does not exist) inkscape is back to life. – Eypros Apr 24 '20 at 09:13