retitle 917130 libIlmImf-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file thanks On my other machine gimp starts, but is in an ugly grey color. Let's clean up these warnings first,
# su - nobody -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY HOME=/tmp/ gimp"& GEGL-Message: 00:12:37.527: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-save.so' load error: libIlmImf-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory GEGL-Message: 00:12:37.926: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-load.so' load error: libIlmImf-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And many (gimp:1448): Gtk-WARNING **: 00:12:40.336: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", And /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-exr/file-exr: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error $ dlocate libIlmImf libopenexr23:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImf-2_3.so.24.0.0 libopenexr23:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImfUtil-2_3.so.24.0.0 libopenexr23:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImf-2_3.so.24 libopenexr23:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImfUtil-2_3.so.24 $ aptitude search libopenexr p libopenexr-dev - development files for the OpenEXR image library i A libopenexr23 - runtime files for the OpenEXR image library p libopenexr24 - runtime files for the OpenEXR image library $ apt-cache policy libopenexr23 libopenexr23: Installed: 2.3.0-3 Candidate: 2.3.0-3 Version table: *** 2.3.0-3 990 990 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.1-4 500 500 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages # aptitude install libopenexr23=2.2.1-4 The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: libopenexr23 # su - nobody -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY HOME=/tmp/ gimp"& GEGL-Message: 00:49:09.357: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-save.so' load error: libImath-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory GEGL-Message: 00:49:09.387: Module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-load.so' load error: libImath-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-exr/file-exr: error while loading shared libraries: libIex-2_2.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now the message becomes libImath and libIex. # set libgegl-0.4-0 # apt-cache policy $@ libgegl-0.4-0: Installed: 0.4.12-2 Candidate: 0.4.12-2 Version table: *** 0.4.12-2 500 500 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status