Re: [Gimp-user] Programme won't start

2005-02-12 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:35:37PM -0400, dave.smith wrote:
 I've just upgraded to the latest version of GIMP and everything seems to
 go OK. When I opened up the programme the first time it was clearly
 opening up the new version and asked if I want to upgrade or re-install.
 
the obvious question here is which operating system and then which
variety of that.

they made newer versions of gimp2 so that it would migrate whatever
files in the user directory of the old version into the new one and that
this doesn't work so well on windows.

 I chose upgrade (well, I had a choice of two things and had to pick
 one!) and now when I click to open up the programme it starts but does
 not complete. It then just disappears and leaves me with nothing!!
 
another good question is which version of gimp did you have and which
version are you updating to?

 So ... what's the problem ... and what to do to get this programme up
 and running again?
 
a quick solution that might work on any os and any variety of it is to
move your user directory out of the way.  either change the name:
mv .gimp-2.0 .gimp-2.0-old or remove it entirely rm -rf .gimp-2.0/*
or whatever version you used to have.  and to be on the safe side,
remove the new one it made also -- once again, you will need to know the
version numbers to determine the name of the files i mentioned.

carol

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Re: [Gimp-user] Programme won't start

2005-02-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

dave.smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I've just upgraded to the latest version of GIMP and everything seems to
 go OK. When I opened up the programme the first time it was clearly
 opening up the new version and asked if I want to upgrade or re-install.

 I chose upgrade (well, I had a choice of two things and had to pick
 one!) and now when I click to open up the programme it starts but does
 not complete. It then just disappears and leaves me with nothing!!

 So ... what's the problem ... and what to do to get this programme up
 and running again?

Move away the .gimp-2.2 folder in your Home directory (rename it, we
might want to have a look at it later...). Then start gimp again. It
should do a clean user install then. If that works for you, it would
be nice if you could report back. Perhaps we can find out what had
gone wrong and fix the problem.


Sven
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