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Error Installing Inkscape 1.2 on Ubuntu 22.04

Inkscape 1.2 has been released. It brings great, long awaited new features, like multiple pages and others. Unfortunately, when I try to install it from its official Inkscape Stable PPA, I got an error like this: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/inkscape_1%3a1.2+202205241504+da316b6974~ubuntu22.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib2geom.so.1.1.0', which is also in package lib2geom1.1.0:amd64 1.1-2build1 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/inkscape_1%3a1.2+202205241504+da316b6974~ubuntu22.04.1_amd64.deb From the error message we know that Inkscape 1.2 package comes with lib2geom library and so conflict happens with lib2geom1.1.0 package installed on my Ubuntu 22.04. This hapens because I've already installed Inkscape 1.1 from Ubuntu default repository. If you have Inkscape 1.1 installed on your Ubuntu 22.04, you pr...