I am using an up to date -current. When I tried to open gimp I got this:

A search came up with this:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...rs-4175725112/

and my machine has:

So my question is, to fix this do I downgrade to exiv2-0.27.6?

I use slackpkg to manage updates, so if I did downgrade would I need to blacklist exiv2 ?

normally for minor mismatches like this i make a symlink to the minor version



mosst of the time this fixes the issue with Gimp

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First I would try creating a symlink as suggested by @John VV

I've done this on numerous occasions to fix issues like this and it generally works fine until a update/patch is released


However if this does not help, to answer your questions:

Unless you want to wait for a update / patch, yes. Though I don't know if there would be dependency issues elsewhere because of it.

Yes, or it will update the next time you run slackpkg.
But I would blacklist the version
and not just the full package
This way you won't (as long as my string is correct ) download the current file, but will (should) download updates / patches

you have 2 options in the meantime:

- downgrade exiv2
- recompile and install gexiv2
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...urce/l/gexiv2/

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Sorry marav, by 2 options do you mean pick one of these, or first downgrade exiv2 and then recompile and install gexiv2?

One of these

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Thank you. I recompiled and installed gexiv2.
Gimp working fine now.

Thanks John VV, I wasn't sure where libexiv2.so.27 is on my system to make the symlink.