[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrade Issues

[Erich Eickmeyer]

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 <eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com
>> <mailto:eeickmeyer at 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>
>>