Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye
Date	2020-08-23 08:20 +0200
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On Sb, 22 aug 20, 21:50:42, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
> Am 22.08.20 um 21:00 schrieb Joachim Fahnenmüller:
> > 
> > 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.
 
[...]

> 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)

See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/08/msg00111.html

Short story: you probably had and old libbabl from Deb Multimedia 
installed, which was preferred by APT due to the epoch.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de> - 2020-08-10 17:30 +0200
  Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2020-08-10 17:50 +0200
  Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2020-08-10 17:50 +0200
    Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de> - 2020-08-10 20:50 +0200
      Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2020-08-10 22:50 +0200
        Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de> - 2020-08-22 21:10 +0200
          Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de> - 2020-08-22 22:00 +0200
            Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-08-23 08:20 +0200
  Re: Can't start Gimp in Bullseye Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-08-10 22:40 +0200

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