What distro are you using? python2.7 and the rest are available on Debian 10. I think it is an issue for the distro creators to address as all the necessary packages exist in vanilla Debian.
Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:51 PM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >Do you have python installed? On my Ubuntu system the 'python' package is > 2.7. > I had not. > > The second dpkg call, where I attempted to install both gimp-python and > python-gtk2 from my previous > debian install (in another partition), apparently left a record of its > attempt, for when I called up synaptic > to see if python was installed, python and six or eight other > python-related packages were already selected > for install to correct 'broken' packages. > Once I let it install them, I called the dpkg call again, and was > successful. > > Note that my success was only because I had my earlier debian install > available to raid, and that the apt > package cache had not been cleaned out and the two packages were right > there. > > Someone who had newly come to debian testing or sid, or had erased his > previous install when installing, > or who had been a good housekeeper and cleaned out his cached packages, > would not have had the option > that was ultimately successful for me. > > I assume gimp-python will have to be updated to use python3 at some point, > or more and more people will > find that GIMP no longer will be able to run python plugins. > (I don't know if all, some or few of the plugins will have to be updated > as well - if the Python API has changed > enough to be a problem for legacy Python apps/plugins, or not...) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kobo : https://www.kobo.com/search?query=Cliff+Pratt _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
