Lesson learned, I won't do it again 😐 I had planned to purge the ppa anyway, downloading US 20.04 iso at the mo. Not using Otto's ppa is important information, I wish I knew sooner. Thanks again 👍
On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 22:29, Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Babsky, > > I don't know how to stress this enough: NEVER use Otto's PPA. It is > known to cause breakage and needless bug reports against the Ubuntu > package. I have had to fight against that PPA for the past two years. > People are breaking their systems by using that PPA, and you're one > example. DO. NOT. USE. IT. > > Something that might work is installing "ppa-purge" and typing "sudo > ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch > <https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch>/gimp-stable" to get back to > the repo version. If that doesn't work, then clean install, and DON'T > ADD THAT PPA! > > -Erich > > > > On 5/9/20 2:17 PM, BabsKy wrote: > >> Hi Erich, thanks for the quick reply. > >> I do use Otto's ppa but his last build failed so there hasn't been a > >> Gimp update since 2.10.14, which was quite a while ago. Unfortunately > >> there aren't many options for Linux/Gimp users, I want to avoid > >> snap/flatpak/appimage versions of anything though I will use an > >> appimage for testing (to see if I like it or if it works better than > >> current version kind of testing). > >> So I'm guessing there's no repair option for US? I did a backup > >> recently but will run again just to be sure and clean install 😟 > >> Thank you > >> > >> On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 21:22, Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com > >> <mailto:eeickme...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Hi BabsKy, > >> > >> On 5/9/20 1:15 PM, BabsKy wrote: > >>> Hello all, so I upgraded from 19.10 to 20.04 today. I waited to > >>> be notified of the upgrade, I didn't upgrade manually. > >>> The upgrade went well, no issues, but now I'm in a mess. > >>> One of my most used applications is Gimp. When I tried to open > >>> it I got an error > >>> image.png > >>> > >>> There are a few other issues and I'm sure I'll find more but > >>> this is my main issue. > >>> There was an update for GEGL after the upgrade but that wasn't > >>> v0.4.22. > >>> Is there an easy way to fix this or is there any way to repair a > >>> US installation? > >>> I'd rather fix all the issues at the same time if possible. > >>> > >>> Thank you > >> > >> This can happen if you have installed GIMP from an unsupported > >> source, such as a PPA. A quick glance at the > >> https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulaschrepositories, which are > >> the common ones for installing GIMP from unsupported sources, > >> shows a version number of GEGL that overrides the newer package > >> in Ubuntu but is, in fact, older. > >> > >> Basically, what you have is an unsupported configuration that > >> caused this. I recommend backing-up your home directory and a > >> clean install at this point. > >> > >> Erich > >> ---- > >> Erich Eickmeyer > >> Project Leader > >> Ubuntu Studio > >> > >> ubuntustudio.org <http://ubuntustudio.org> > >> > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >
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