Hay people. I'm a Linux-newcomer. I'm using MX 17.1 on an Lenovo T430 ThinkPad. Today I had the plan to test gimp2.10.6, which is in the graphic-menu, for the first time. It did not start at all. Then I tried to deinstall the package with the MX-installer. This was successful and then I tried, after a "sudo apt-get autoremove" a reinstallation with synaptic. The same problem.
I tried it on the cli and typed gimp and Enter.

Following error-message:
gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0: undefined symbol: babl_format_with_space

Has anyone an idea of the reason for this problem? This would be great. Thanks.

Hi blacksun13,

Welcome to LQ.

You are not alone, it would seem ... I immediately found loads of recent info after a simple Google search ... Seems to be due to a rogue library that needs to be removed (libbabl).

Please see these links for useful info:

https://bugs.debian.org/897226

http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp...ibrary-problem

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...er/lNnz0RBTfYI

Cheers !

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I was under the impression we had the updated version of the libraries in our test repo.

Make sure you don't have the same libraries from deb-multimedia installed.

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Thank you Rickkkk. I followed your links and can see there the reason for the bug. I will try to fix it. Thanks again.

You are most welcome, blacksun13 - hope it works out.

Come back anytime.