[opensuse] gimpshop overtakes gimp after being removed
running opensuse10.2 and using smart to manage packages: I wanted to evaluate gimpshop for the sake of a friend who was uncomfortable with native gimp. So I removed gimp (as required, though you may say otherwise) and installed gimpshop from packman repos. It didn't perform as well as it was supposed to and gave an error when trying to open almost any graphic file type (eg, jpg, png, bmp) saying "unknown file type". So I removed it and reinstalled gimp. Funny thing was the gimpshop splash screen persisted and so did the failure to open any file. Did a search on my drive for any gimpshop components, found nothing telling, so I upgraded to gimp-unstable just for the hell of it. Same thing. Downgraded to gimp 2.2.13 from suse repos and same thing. I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas? Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/29/2007 06:56 PM, Gavin Chester wrote:
I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Try deleting the .gimp-2.2 folder in your home directory. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-10-29 at 19:56 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Try "rpm -q --last | less" to find out what rpm were really installed lately. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHJcqdtTMYHG2NR9URAgUwAJ9PA/uXL70dWZ97/XagkRDJQ7tobQCfWN6a nMV8GakLKpOSd0BdVcfdW+Q= =xMRG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 29 October 2007 04:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-10-29 at 19:56 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Try "rpm -q --last | less" to find out what rpm were really installed lately.
Even better, use this: % rpm -qa --last |less (Without the 'a' option, you're not asking for any packages to be listed.)
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:57 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-10-29 at 19:56 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Try "rpm -q --last | less" to find out what rpm were really installed lately.
Thanks, yes the version intended was installed. On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:43 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/29/2007 06:56 PM, Gavin Chester wrote:
Try deleting the .gimp-2.2 folder in your home directory.
That had some effect, but only to recreate the directory after restarting gimp, of course. But then it just repeated the gimpshop splash screen and had same previous file open failure. In trying to purge my system of anything gimp to start again, now I have made things worse and gone too far :-( I thought that getting rid of the directory /usr/include/gimp-2.0 was clearing out old stuff, except now the newest gimp complains that it can't find gimp-2.0 and much stuff fails to function :-( I've since read that this is where gimp-2.2.x stores its data files. I've asked 'smart' to find gimp-2.0 to reinstall it but it's not found - nor is it created with the replacement gimp-2.2.x package install. How should I proceed from here? 1/find an rpm of gimp-2.0 somewhere; 2/remove gimp again and build from source? Gavin. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon October 29 2007 06:56:15 am Gavin Chester wrote: <snip>
Did a search on my drive for any gimpshop components, found nothing telling, so I upgraded to gimp-unstable just for the hell of it. Same thing. Downgraded to gimp 2.2.13 from suse repos and same thing.
I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas?
Hi Gavin, I just went through a similar experience with the gimp on 10.2: After some updates a while back, gnome started spitting out more than just the typical fonts/paths errors in .xsession-errors, nautilus occassionally started racing (requiring a kill/restart) and Firefox would not resize unless first 'maximized'... so... I ventured into 'Software Management' and found several gnome bits installed with newer versions available... one of them being the gimp, which of course stopped working after the update. After an 'rpm -qa | grep gimp' it appeared I had two versions installed... the original and the newer. (I thought "WTF?!") I ran an 'rpm -e (then ldconfig and SuSEconfig) to remove the original and then it would launch... but not in a usable state (unrecognized file formats) and other things on my gnome desktop were broken... two error messages on login, lost background image, icons missing in my (customized) panels and so on. The bottom line is I had to uninstall everything gimp related and then install only the newer version. While I was at it, I performed a second iteration of updating everthing gnome on my system that the Software Management module would allow without complaining. After doing this, all the above described problems disappeared and the newer version of the gimp that I'm running, gimp24-2.4.0-0.pm.2, is working great... well worth the effort IMHO. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:16 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
The bottom line is I had to uninstall everything gimp related and then install only the newer version.
I feel for your troubles :-( But mine aren't as system-wide and I don't run gnome. See my other reply where removing all gimp components and reinstalling have not fixed things, sadly. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-30 at 00:00 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
But mine aren't as system-wide and I don't run gnome.
But the gimp depends on libgtk, which can be considered part of gnome.
See my other reply where removing all gimp components and reinstalling have not fixed things, sadly.
I would consider reinstalling everything you installed since the moment you installed gimpshop - using that rpm -qa --last thing. And watch the install list for the repos they come from. There is also an rpm command that can identify the provider of each rpm, so you can see if you got some extraneous gimp rpms - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHKa2itTMYHG2NR9URAlu0AJ9ezAtfAk+mhXibAVHqOUnI6me/6gCePQno MTMvEszI62BuDFA49gqelMM= =ga9T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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