[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrade Issues

[BabsKy]

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 <eeickmeyer at 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 <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>
> >>
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