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For those who have the same problem as in my last commend, reinstall ipe.

It seems that ipe 7.2.30 requires gsl 2.7, but the latest gsl is 2.8.

Running ipe from commandline:

ipe: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think it's better to specify gsl version.

Have you tried re-compiling/re-installing Ipe after the last time you updated the system?

Using this last version in Arch and Manjaro triggers a lot of IPE crashes.

It might be related to the interaction between IPE and LaTex.

Please see these issues:

• https://github.com/otfried/ipe/issues/482
• https://github.com/otfried/ipe/issues/359

It's been on my to-do list. Your message came at just the right time.

Wow that was fast! Thanks for your responsiveness :)

Thanks for the nudge. Updated, although I needed different changes in config.patch.

[EDIT] I copied the wrong config.patch in my initial message, sorry for that

The remote url for downloading the IPE sources seems outdated (I get a 404). I suggest upgrading to IPE 7.2.27 using the following changes. As a side effect we get to use the latest versions of qt and lua, thus getting rid of the AUR qt5-qtspell package.

For the PKGBUILD

--- PKGBUILD.old    2022-07-16 19:33:24.000000000 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD    2023-05-07 17:28:40.798951560 +0200
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@

 pkgname=ipe
 _dirver=7.2
-pkgver=7.2.26
+pkgver=7.2.27
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The extensible drawing editor"
 url="http://ipe.otfried.org/"
-depends=('lua53' 'qt5-base' 'qt5-svg' 'freetype2' 'zlib' 'poppler' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'gsl' 'libspiro' 'qt5-qtspell')
+depends=('lua' 'qt6-base' 'qt6-svg' 'freetype2' 'zlib' 'poppler' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'gsl' 'libspiro' 'qtspell')
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 license=("GPL")
 conflicts=('ipe')
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 }

 # vim: ft=sh syn=sh et ts=2 sw=2
-md5sums=('cac0aa5510bb2b47cd133e81a5e7c222'
+md5sums=('beb9cb6c2501ce9cff7b36655e3974b1'
          '694f0d5402655901be385647e5d8d6e3'
-         'd4e289bce01302a8b76a0df294c7de40'
+         '4e039ca3047eb14335a9db8fc5d7a40e'
          '19fd2cac2564125afa0149105d00d3dd')

Remove svgtoipe-python2.patch (it doesn't seem to be used anywhere)

config.patch becomes

--- config.mak.orig 2023-05-05 22:13:50.000000000 +0200
+++ config.mak  2023-05-07 17:19:37.498120283 +0200
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #
 # The name of the Lua package (it could be "lua", "lua54", or "lua5.4")
 #
-LUA_PACKAGE   ?= lua5.4
+LUA_PACKAGE   ?= lua
 #
 ZLIB_CFLAGS   ?=
 ZLIB_LIBS     ?= -lz
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 #
 # MOC is the Qt meta-object compiler.
 # Make sure it's the right one for Qt6.
-MOC          ?= /usr/lib/qt6/libexec/moc
+MOC          ?= /usr/lib/qt6/moc
 #
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 #

Rebuilding is usually the first thing to try when you find something doesn't work as expected anymore. When using AUR packages, you as the user are responsible for checking which packages are impacted by library changes.

@runical thanks, rebuilding also solves the problem (using yay I did a cleanBuild)