FYI - I have written up some instructions on how to get the gimp to run again
in Hardy Heron when gimpshop is also installed.
If your are having problems getting the Gimp to run in other distros where
gimpshop is installed, give these instructions a try. They should work but you
might need
Akkana writes:
It's a fairly well known problem, at least among people who maintain
both a locally built gimp and the one installed from their distro.
The current 2.5 release notes have a reasonable description of what's
happening (which also apply to gimpshop or any version of gimp you
I just installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1 a week ago on a x86 PC. And gimp was
working just fine.
Then I installed Gimpshop (based on gimp 2.2). FYI -- Gimpshop installs into a
different directory /usr/local/bin.
Both gimp and gimpshop were working. In fact you could run both at the same
I found that problem.
The Latest version of the Avant Window Manager (installed from the deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main repo) BREAKS gimp
2.4.5 in Hardy Heron 8.04.1.
You can easily verify that this is the problem.
1. Boot off the Hardy Heron 8.04.1 Live CD.
2.
After more testing and investigation, it looks like AWN is NOT to
blame in breaking the gimp in Hardy Heron. It was just mere coincidence that
the installation of AWN also was the start of the gimp not working.
I booted off the Ubuntu Hardy Heron Live CD and installed gimpshop via
dpkg -i.
CC: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Robert Kennedy wrote:
So it does look like a packaging issue. The gimpshop package should
be modified to show a conflict with gimp. But since
