[Gimp-user] Can No Longer startup Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Kennedy

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 
time. 

But now when I start gimp, I get this error:

symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: gimp_micro_version

I tried to reinstall gimp. That made no difference.

I did search google and this error is rarely reported.

Any ideas? I am really stumped and would like to get gimp working.  I thought 
someone on this list might have an idea.

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[Gimp-user] alpha channel computation

2008-07-24 Thread Nerius Landys
Hello.  I have a TGA image that is fully opaque.  I want to introduce
translucency to the image, making each pixel translucent according to how
far away from black it is.  If a pixel is originally black, it becomes fully
opaque.  If a pixel is originally white, it becomes fully transparent.  If a
pixel is 0x7f7f7f (gray) or 0xff007f (approximately halfway in brighness
between dark and light), it becomes somewhere around half transparent
(computed using diagonal of color cube).

Is there an easy way to do this in GIMP?  i can imagine writing a quickie
computer program to do this for me, but I'm sure the easier way would be to
convince GIMP to do this for me.

Thanks.
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Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Kennedy

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. Add the repos:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main( See 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363 )

3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr 
awn-manager-bzr
5. Try to run gimp. It will not run. If you run gimp from the terminal, you 
will see the following error:
symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: gimp_micro_version
Now try to get gimp to run again. I can't!I tried to COMPLETELY uninstall the 
following:
awn (using the instructions on the 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363)

gimp

gimp-data

libgimp.
I even manually deleted the .gimp-2.4/ folder in my home directory.
Then deleted the AWN third party rep sources and reinstalled gimp. I
still see the error.
This bug is VERY annoying.  I would really like to get gimp running again. 
Any Ideas?Rob

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Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with psd files under Ubuntu

2008-07-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:06 +0200, Heiko Schmidt wrote:

 I'm currently not able to open psd files with Gimp. (SVN build under 
 Ubuntu). During the process to opening the file the progress bar stops 
 by ca 75%. With Gimp 2.4.5 the same. I can load all the those psd files 
 under Windows with Gimp 2.4.6.

Please file a bug report for this issue at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
and attach an example file to the bug report. Thanks.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-user] alpha channel computation

2008-07-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:49 -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
 Hello.  I have a TGA image that is fully opaque.  I want to introduce
 translucency to the image, making each pixel translucent according to
 how far away from black it is.  If a pixel is originally black, it
 becomes fully opaque.  If a pixel is originally white, it becomes
 fully transparent.  If a pixel is 0x7f7f7f (gray) or 0xff007f
 (approximately halfway in brighness between dark and light), it
 becomes somewhere around half transparent (computed using diagonal of
 color cube).
 
 Is there an easy way to do this in GIMP?

Easy. Just add a layer mask. In the dialog for creating the mask, choose
to initialize the mask with Grayscale copy of layer. Now you already
got almost what you want. You just need to invert the mask as you want
white to be transparent and black to be opaque. Colors-Invert will do
this. Now all you need to do is to apply the layer mask.


Sven



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Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Kennedy

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. Both gimp and gimpshop worked perfectly. If you did a ldd
`which gimp-2.4`, you would see that the gimp only loaded libraries in
/lib and /usr/lib and NOT any libraries installed by Gimpshop in
/usr/local/lib.

Since gimpshop was installed vua dpkg -i, the library cache was never 
regenerated.



But then I did a sudo ldconfig. Then gimp stopped working. (But
gimpshop still worked). If you did a ldd `which gimp-2.4`, you would
see the gimp loading some (but not all) libraries from /usr/local/lib
where gimpshop installed libraries. 

When I installed AWN via apt-get, the library cache got regenerated (via 
ldconfig).  Then the gimp stopped working.



So it does look like a packaging issue. The gimpshop package should be
modified to show a conflict with gimp. But since the gimpshop project
appears to be dead that is not likely to happen.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:19:04 +
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron








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. Add the repos:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main
( See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363 )


3. sudo apt-get update

4. sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr 
awn-manager-bzr

5. Try to run gimp. It will not run. If you run gimp from the terminal, you 
will see the following error:

symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: gimp_micro_version

Now try to get gimp to run again. I can't!
I tried to COMPLETELY uninstall the following:

awn (using the instructions on the 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762363)

gimp

gimp-data

libgimp.

I even manually deleted the .gimp-2.4/ folder in my home directory.
Then deleted the AWN third party rep sources and reinstalled gimp. I
still see the error.

This bug is VERY annoying.  I would really like to get gimp running again. 

Any Ideas?
Rob


 

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Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
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 the gimpshop
 project appears to be dead that is not likely to happen.


Indeed. the right thing to do would be modify the gimp-shop package 
to non-existent' - retroactively. 

js
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Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread David Gowers
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 the gimpshop
 project appears to be dead that is not likely to happen.

GIMPhoto is similar and not dead. However, it's based on the same
idea. Providing alternate user interfaces for an entire program only
serves to confuse the user and make GIMP look like a Photoshop-clone,
which it is not.
So, you can possibly use GIMPhoto sometime in the future (author is
working on compiling it in Linux), just be aware the the GIMP
developers do not support it in anyway (except, as Joao says, in
supporting it's removal from existence). I'm actually a little
surprised that the first replier didn't say something like 'drop it,
we don't care about gimpshop cause it's bullshit, stop using a
f***ed-up hack of gimp if you want things to work in a non-f***ed-up
way.'. Joao was a little more polite.



 Indeed. the right thing to do would be modify the gimp-shop package
 to non-existent' - retroactively.


David
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Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Kennedy

Thanks David.  Personally, I prefer the Gimp over Photoshop or gimpshop.  I was 
just setting up a laptop for a 12 year old daughter of a friend of mine who is 
more familiar with Photoshop.  So I installed gimpshop not knowing it would 
break the Gimp 2.4.5 (which I really wanted her to try).  I figured with all 
the advantages and new features of the Gimp 2.4.5 over a hacked version of the 
Gimp based on version 2.2, she would end up using the Gimp!

I only posted my original EMAIL after searching the web and finding very little 
discussion on the error message:  Symbol look up error:  undefined symbol:  
gimp_micro-version

A reinstall ofthe Gimp did not solve the problem.  I was stumped.  

Now I know the problem and solution.  Uninstall gimpshop.  

I even posted a comment on a blog telling people how to install gimpshop on 
hardy Heron.  (see http://delirial.com/archives/howto-gimpshop-on-ubuntu/ ) 

There was no mention that installing gimpshop would break the gimp.  Now there 
is.  I hope others get warned.

Rob 

 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:33:43 +0930
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] AWN breaks the Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron
 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 the gimpshop
  project appears to be dead that is not likely to happen.
 
 GIMPhoto is similar and not dead. However, it's based on the same
 idea. Providing alternate user interfaces for an entire program only
 serves to confuse the user and make GIMP look like a Photoshop-clone,
 which it is not.
 So, you can possibly use GIMPhoto sometime in the future (author is
 working on compiling it in Linux), just be aware the the GIMP
 developers do not support it in anyway (except, as Joao says, in
 supporting it's removal from existence). I'm actually a little
 surprised that the first replier didn't say something like 'drop it,
 we don't care about gimpshop cause it's bullshit, stop using a
 f***ed-up hack of gimp if you want things to work in a non-f***ed-up
 way.'. Joao was a little more polite.
 
 
 
  Indeed. the right thing to do would be modify the gimp-shop package
  to non-existent' - retroactively.
 
 
 David

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Re: [Gimp-user] gimpshop breaks Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Robert Kennedy writes:
 
 After more testing and investigation, it looks like AWN is NOT to
 blame in breaking the gimp in Hardy Heron
[ ... ]
 But then I did a sudo ldconfig. Then gimp stopped working. (But
 gimpshop still worked). If you did a ldd `which gimp-2.4`, you would
 see the gimp loading some (but not all) libraries from /usr/local/lib
 where gimpshop installed libraries. 
[ ... ]
 So it does look like a packaging issue. The gimpshop package should be
 modified to show a conflict with gimp. But since the gimpshop project
 appears to be dead that is not likely to happen.

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
might want to build yourself while still keeping a system-installed
version), and how to fix it:
http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html
(scroll down to Installation).

Whoever builds that gimpshop packageshould probably be doing this,
though maybe they just assume that no one would ever want both gimp
and gimpshop on the same system (but in that case, it should be
marked as a conflict in the package dependencies, as you say).
Failing that, you could probably fix it by moving all the gimpshop
stuff to some other place and using a script like the one in the
2.5 release notes.

...Akkana
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