Re: Gimp acting strangely
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:16:11 +0000
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I try and run gimp and it silently exits.
>
> I have tried completely uninstalling it and re-installing it, but
> that doesn't help.
>
> The only related thing that might have caused it is that I have
> removed a lot of gnome libraries having just switched over the kde.
> But I would have thought they would have come up as unsatisfied
> dependancies and been reinstalled if gimp needed them. Any one any
> clues as to what might be going on.
>
> I am on Sid.
>
>
It does look that way. While dependencies are usually done well, there
are a few glitches now and then. I've just worked around a gutenprint
dependency issue in sid, where a 'conflicts' appears to be missing, so
it's entirely possible that gimp has failed to bring in everything
necessary.
Have a look with apt-rdepends -p gimp > filename (it's a lot more than a
screenful, over 900 lines).
Mine has a few not-installed entries, but in each case there seems to
be an alternative which is installed.
I've just moved to LXDE but I haven't dared pull any gnome stuff. This
is sid, after all.
--
Joe
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