Help!!! How to fault-find lost GIMP installation

[david]

Ubuntu 20.04
GIMP 2.10.34-1build6-ubuntu2004(focal)

Today when I came to use GIMP it did not load. It is the version originally obtained from the PandaJim PPA and I had python 2.7 support which meant all my usual plug-ins worked.

I tried to start it from the terminal and got:

gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libmypaint-1.5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I searched in Synaptic for libmypaint-1.5.so.1, but no such file was found.

Any advice will be gratefully received as to how to fault-find this problem.

[Ofnuts]

Is there such a lib/package on the PPA?

[PixLab]

You need to install MyPaint

Code:

sudo apt install mypaint

this happened to me some time ago, after installing mypaint > GIMP worked just fine

[rich2005]

(04-10-2023, 03:11 AM)PixLab Wrote: You need to install MyPaint

Code:

sudo apt install mypaint

this happened to me some time ago, after installing mypaint > GIMP worked just fine

kubuntu 20.04 ...and to me a couple of days ago when Gimp 2.10.34 (from PPA) stopped working after a synaptic package update.

I can not find the offending package that removed libmypaint, nothing obvious in the log - Gimp already the latest, so not that - a mystery

The package is in the PandaJim PPA this in my synaptic

   

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Another look in the apt log and it shows this:

Start-Date: 2023-04-07  10:42:51
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-remove-packages' sender=':1.65'
Remove: libxmlb1:amd64 (0.1.15-2ubuntu1~20.04.1), libmypaint-1.5-1:amd64 (1.5.1-1), libmypaint-common:amd64 (1.5.1-1)
End-Date: 2023-04-07  10:42:52

[PixLab]

(04-10-2023, 07:31 AM)rich2005 Wrote: kubuntu 20.04 ...and to me a couple of days ago when Gimp 2.10.34 (from PPA) stopped working after a synaptic package update.

I can not find the offending package that removed libmypaint, nothing obvious in the log - Gimp already the latest, so not that - a mystery

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Another look in the apt log and it shows this:

Start-Date: 2023-04-07  10:42:51
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-remove-packages' sender=':1.65'
Remove: libxmlb1:amd64 (0.1.15-2ubuntu1~20.04.1), libmypaint-1.5-1:amd64 (1.5.1-1), libmypaint-common:amd64 (1.5.1-1)
End-Date: 2023-04-07  10:42:52

If I recall correctly it happened after "updating" Ubuntu via the software updater. (but I won't swear about it)

[david]

Many thanks to everyone.

I installed mypaint and instantly everything working!

Without this forum many people would have great problems.