gimp has apparently been broken by an update

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#21

it’s available from the graphics repo I just did

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/graphics.repo
zypper in gimp-2.10.4

but I found a bug in the distribution trying to start gimp help results in an error message about the help plug-in not being available, seeing how gimp-help is at 2.8.2 at both the standard repo and the graphics repo this might be an issue with the gimp-help package
anybody running TW and gimp 2.10.4 does gimp help work?

#22

Hello,

I tested the gimp help in tumbleweed. Seems working.
I see that the context help starts wine which starts firefox and I receive the correct context help (for Gimp 2.8). A bit slow

Regards
Philippe

#23

I have installed gimp-2-10-6 via flatpak and the flatpak repo. gimp works, but starts slowly and produces errors during startup. It does appear to run correctly though. I am hoping that these errors might give a clue as to why the Tumbleweed version will not start on my computer. Here is the output:

ronnie@Ryzen7:~> flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable
Gtk-Message: 08:16:51.914: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"
Missing fast-path babl conversion detected, Implementing missing babl fast paths
accelerates GEGL, GIMP and other software using babl, warnings are printed on
first occurance of formats used where a conversion has to be synthesized
programmatically by babl based on format description

*WARNING* missing babl fast path(s): "R'G'B' double" to "CIE Lab double"
*WARNING* missing babl fast path(s): "cairo-ARGB32" to "R'G'B'A u8"

I should note that the packages being complained about are in fact installed. Perhaps a version conflict?

#24

Hi
There are a few other threads about gimp in the forum, if you have the Graphics repo version then it has probably pulled in openblas from there which is broken…

Revert to the Tumbleweed OSS versions of gimp and openblas…

#25

I had gimp from the tumbleweed repo, but openblas was from the Tumblewed science repo. Now gimp does start, although it takes up to 30 seconds. The terminal output is similar to the errors I posted earlier with the version from flatpak:

gimp
Missing fast-path babl conversion detected, Implementing missing babl fast paths
accelerates GEGL, GIMP and other software using babl, warnings are printed on
first occurance of formats used where a conversion has to be synthesized
programmatically by babl based on format description

*WARNING* missing babl fast path(s): "R'G'B' double" to "CIE Lab double"

I have removed the Science repo and will go back and re-install anything from there that was pulled in by accident to see if that will get rid of the errors.

#26

I also found the package libblas from the science repo, which I switched back to the Tumbleweed repo. gimp starts and runs; continues to start very slowy, and produces the same errors in the output. But at least it works.