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GIMP won't open any more

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5873 / 1 Year ago, thu, february 9, 2023, 7:29:09

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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answered 1 Year ago amacal · Accepted 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!