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
Robert Kennedy writes:
After more testing and investigation, it looks like AWN is NOT to
blame in breaking the gimp in Hardy Heron
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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
