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Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

by Thomas H. George-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

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> On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little
> > Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts.  I
> > can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log so I have used
> > dpkg --purge to remove a number of programs to no avail.  I have done a
> > number of apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade runs since I last used
> > Gimp.  Although the upgrades were quite large I assume they are not the
> > problem since I have seen nothing on the list about this problem.
> >
> > Any suggestions of what to try next would be most welcome.
>
> Open a command window and run it from there.  Hopefully some useful
> error messages will appear.
>
Right.  I opened a terminal window, tried to start Gimp, and got the
following message:

gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: g_dpgettext

Tom

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