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sabret00the
Asked: 2018-11-11 07:03:27 +0800 CST

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) with libgimp3.0

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I'm getting the above error when I try and update my system.

I have tried to sudo dpkg --configure -a as well as sudo apt install -f gimp, sudo apt remove gimp and sudo apt purge gimp. I even tried to do the recommended sudo apt --fix-broken install via Recovery to no avail.

Due to being super frustrated and after some searching, I even tried to sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/polar-bookshelf.* /tmp but I'm still seeing no joy in getting this fixed. Can someone suggest a solution please?

software-installation package-management dpkg gimp 18.10

2 Answers

  1. In terminal type sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/gimp.postinst

    Then find set -e and replace it with # set -e, save and close.

    Then type sudo apt-get -f install

    Before sudo apt update

    And finally sudo apt upgrade

    The issue should be fixed.

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  2. The cause of this error is:

    1. gimp2.99 as a development version try to update gimp2.0 to gimp3.0 recently.
    2. But there is a dependency of libgimp2.0 to sane and gimp-gmic (if you have installed them), so that in the coarse of update, gimp2.99 cannot remove libgimp2.0 and caused the problem.
    3. If you want to test the development version of gimp for the gimp team, you may want to have libgimp3.0. To achieve this, first purge gimp and then remove libgimp2.0 together with gimp-gmic and sane (you can only do this if you do not need them) .Reinstall libgimp3.0 and gimp then.
    4. I believe you won't have libgimp3.0 installed with former solution and you may have difficulty in updating gimp 2.99 in the future
    5. If you need gmic very much while you like gtk3 of 2.99, do 4. and then download and run gimp appimage 2.10.8 with plugin. Then you can have both development version and stable version + plugin on your platform. this is what i do.
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