Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

Am 22.08.20 um 21:00 schrieb Joachim Fahnenmüller:
> Am 10.08.20 um 22:47 schrieb Kent West:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:49 PM Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Am 10.08.20 um 17:39 schrieb Kent West:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Joachim Fahnenmüller <
> > > jfahnenmueller@web.de>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > >
> > > > > since I upgraded to Bullseye, Gimp does not start any more. I get the
> > > > > following:
> > > > >
> > > > > joachim@peter:~$ gimp
> > > > > gimp: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information
> > > > > available (required by gimp)
> > > > > gimp: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information
> > > > > available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0)
> > > > > gimp: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information
> > > > > available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0)
> > > > > gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol:
> > > gegl_rectangle_subtract
> > > > > Any idea?
> > > > What happens with:
> > > >
> > > > ~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0
> > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 13 10:36
> > > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 -> libbabl-0.1.so.0.177.1
> > >
> > >
> > > joachim@peter:~$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 13  2019
> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 -> libbabl-0.1.so.0.165.1
> >
> > You might try:
> >
> > $ cd /usr/bin
> > $ ldd gimp
> >
> > and look for any "not found" lines.
>
>
> root@peter:~# ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 13  2019
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0 -> libbabl-0.1.so.0.165.1
>
> apt-file search libbabl-0.1.so.0.177.1
> libbabl-0.1-0: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0.177.1
>
> Looks like libbabl hasn't upgraded. However, I don't know why and what
> to do about it.
>
> root@peter:/usr/bin# ldd gimp
> ./gimp: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version
> information available (required by ./gimp)
> (and more lines)
>
> That is the same as I posted originally.


I got it working again, though I still don't understand what happened.

I did:
apt-get install libbabl-0.1-0=0.1.78-1
(it complained that it was a downgrade and also removed gimp)
apt-get install libgegl-common=0.4.24-1
(similar, but then I could:)
apt-get install gimp
(and it works)

Regards, Joachim