I note that ldd lists 124 library dependencies for gimp, but none is an sdl
library. Likewise for `gimp -v`. So how can we tell what version library
it needs?
$ ldd `which gimp`|wc
124 492 10314
$ gimp
Failed loading SDL3 library.
Segmentation fault gimp
$ ldd `which gimp` | grep -i sdl
$
$ gimp -v
GNU Image Manipulation Program version 3.2.6
git-describe: GIMP_3_2_6
Build: unknown rev 0 for linux
# C compiler #
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/cc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/16/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 16.2.0-2'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-16/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2,rust,cobol,algol68
--prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-16
--program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-libstdcxx-backtrace
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin
--enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --enable-libphobos-checking=release
--with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch
--disable-werror --enable-cet --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic
--enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/reproducible-path/gcc-16-16.2.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,amdgcn-amdhsa=/build/reproducible-path/gcc-16-16.2.0/debian/tmp-gcn/usr
--enable-offload-defaulted --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
--with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --enable-link-serialization=3
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 16.2.0 (Debian 16.2.0-2)
# Libraries #
using babl version 0.1.128 (compiled against version 0.1.128)
using GEGL version 0.4.72 (compiled against version 0.4.72)
using GLib version 2.90.0 (compiled against version 2.90.0)
using GdkPixbuf version 2.44.7 (compiled against version 2.44.7)
using GTK+ version 3.24.52 (compiled against version 3.24.52)
using Pango version 1.58.0 (compiled against version 1.58.0)
using Fontconfig version 2.17.1 (compiled against version 2.17.1)
using Cairo version 1.18.4 (compiled against version 1.18.4)
using gexiv2 version 0.16.2 (compiled against version 0.16.2)
using exiv2 version 0.28.9
$
On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 6:14 AM Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 8:59 PM James Van Zandt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I launched GIMP from the command line. Intially I got this
> > printed:
> > $ gimp
> > GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.775: Module
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-save.so' load error:
> libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> > GEGL-Message: 14:11:26.776: Module
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gegl-0.4/exr-load.so' load error:
> libOpenEXR-3_1.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> > Failed loading SDL3 library.
> > Segmentation fault gimp
>
> Are you still experiencing this issue? If not, this may have been
> fixed with gimp 3.2.4-3+b1 which has this note "Rebuild against
> libimath-3-2-30"
>
> I believe these kinds of issues happen occasionally in Debian Unstable
> where there may be incomplete library transitions and are less likely
> to happen with Debian Testing.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
>
