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akmur
Asked: 2012-02-23 01:17:54 +0800 CST

GIMP won't open any more

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My GIMP is not opening any more, after trying to upgrade to 2.7 (I added the PPA to do that).

I got an error when trying to upgrade that said some dependencies couldn't be solved.

So I removed the PPA, removed GIMP altogether, and reinstalled the standard GIMP... installation went ok but now it won't open. How can I troubleshoot it?

Invoking gimp in a Terminal gives:

gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libbabl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here we go:

    sudo apt-get remove gimp
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get purge gimp libgegl* libbabl* 
sudo apt-get install gimp

    This worked for me.

    Source: http://bentwithlove.blogspot.com/2011/05/gimperror-while-loading-shared.html

    And if you add the ppa

    ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

    you can get the latest 2.7 gimp!

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  2. I had the ppa @Alex mentions installed, but my that gave me the same libbabl-0.0.so.0 problem like you.

    If you are satisfied with gimp 2.6, the following worked for me (Ubuntu 12.04):

    1) remove the matthaeus123 ppa。 As pointed out by @Eliah Kagan, the safer way to do this is:

    sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

    2) Do something like @Alex said. I did:

    sudo apt-get remove gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge gimp libgegl* libbabl*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install gimp
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  3. In my case none of the apt remove-reinstall commands were working, started to get it working by uninstalling, then removing leftover files (I had compiled gimp at some point earlier), which are reported with whereis gimp. Now after reinstall, it started up with error, second startup complained about files in /usr/share/gimp nonexistent. After apt-get purge and install of gimp-data and gimp packages, it works!

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