[SOLVED] GIMP doesn't start

[capcla]

Hi,
for some time, gimp doesn't start.
If I try to start it by terminal, the system return me this error

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$ gimp
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by gimp)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-npd-0.4.so)
gimp: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0: symbol babl_get_model_flags version V0_1_0 not defined in file libbabl-0.1.so.0 with link time reference

How can I fix the problem?
Thanks

EDIT
Could it be a deb-multimedia package?
Now deb-multimedia's repo is not active, but it was active in the past

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Could it be a deb-multimedia package?

Yes.

Restore your system from the backup you made before wrecking it with deb-multimedia.

[capcla]

Is too late for backup. At this point, I believe more easy find the the bad package(s), if there's a way
Do you know a way?

[capcla]

Is too late for backup. At this point, I believe more easy find the the bad package(s), if there's a way
Do you know?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, !?origin(debian))'

^ That should show any packages not installed from the Debian repositories. Good luck removing them though...

[stevepusser]

As far as I know, DMO's fake higher version of libbabl didn't put anything in /usr/local/lib, but instead stuck to Debian policy. Plus the errors are different, based on the MX users that broke gimp with dmo's libbabl, and are easily seen as dmo's fault. Anyway:

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apt policy libbabl-0.1-0

will help clear things up, but you still have some splaining to do about /usr/local. Did you try a manual build and install of babl?

BTW, you can also install the latest GIMP 2.10.18 from one of my OBS repositories--the multimedia one--and it won't poison your system like DMO might: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... ssert/gimp

[capcla]

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apt policy libbabl-0.1-0
libbabl-0.1-0:
  Installato: 0.1.74-1
  Candidato:  0.1.74-1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.1.74-1 500
        500 http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Well if you're running testing then the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0 error could be due to a soname bump, which is one of the joys of the development branches. It might get fixed if you wait a bit and update again.

But that doesn't tell us from where the /usr/local/lib stuff originated. No Debian packages would put libraries there, that's for sure.

[stevepusser]

The newer GIMP also runs fine with 0.1.74 backported to Buster in the MX 19 test repo:

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$ apt policy libbabl-0.1-0
libbabl-0.1-0:
  Installed: 0.1.74-1~mx19+1
  Candidate: 0.1.74-1~mx19+1
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.74-1~mx19+1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.1.66-0.1~mx19+1 500
        500 http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
     0.1.62-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

and nothing babl related is in /usr/local/lib at all.

[capcla]

Yes, a copy on libbabl is in my /usr/local/lib

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/usr/local/lib# ls
babl-0.1	libbabl-0.1.so	  libbabl-0.1.so.0.155.1  python2.7
libbabl-0.1.la	libbabl-0.1.so.0  pkgconfig		  python3.7

But, where do you understand that my libbabl is in /usr/local/lib?

[capcla]

Ok, this is a very stupid question...

But, where do you understand that my libbabl is in /usr/local/lib?

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$ gimp
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by gimp)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0)
gimp: /usr/local/lib/libbabl-0.1.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-npd-0.4.so)
gimp: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0: symbol babl_get_model_flags version V0_1_0 not defined in file libbabl-0.1.so.0 with link time reference

But with these suggestions

No Debian packages would put libraries there, that's for sure.

and nothing babl related is in /usr/local/lib at all.

I've solved the problem.

I deleted libbabl-0.1*

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/usr/local/lib# rm libbabl-0.1*

then, I've reinstalled gimp and xsane and then gimp and xsane are stared!

Thanks a lot!

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Now this is the contents' /usr/local/lib folderd

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/usr/local/lib# ls
babl-0.1  pkgconfig  python2.7	python3.7

Must I delete babl-0.1 folder too?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

You shouldn't have anything in /usr/local/lib, do the files belong to any packages?

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for file in $(find /usr/local/lib); do dpkg -S "$file"; done

[stevepusser]

The only way for those babl files to be in /usr/local/lib is for someone to have manually compiled and install a version of babl around its 0.1.55 release. If you didn't do it, your system is compromised and can't be trusted, but it's more likely that you did it, and just don't recall it.