Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

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