Wednesday, May 18, 2011

gimp:error while loading shared libraries: libbabl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After trying so many things to get my gimp working finally i was able to solve it.
After i upgraded to ubuntu 11.04 when i start my gimp from cmd i get the following errors
gimp:error while loading shared libraries: libbabl-0.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
the problem was with synbolic links. I looked at usr/lib and found that there were no libbabl-0.0.s0.0 files. i tried to reinstall it but didn work. Finally i got it working, i had to remove gimp and purge and install libgegl and libbabl again.
the doing the following cmd does it.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge gimp libgegl* libbabl*
sudo apt-get install gimp
sudo apt-get clean

thanks :

n0dix
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18 comments:

  1. spaceferretOctober 1, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    Thank you , your advice helped me greatly, I couldn't figure it out why GIMP crashed,I followed your advice and now it works. Thanks again !

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  2. ashOctober 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM

    Thank u... I hope it helps everyone with these problems.

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  3. Rodrigo SiqueiraNovember 7, 2011 at 4:08 AM

    tanks i'm from brasil!

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  4. Angel GonzalezNovember 9, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    Thanks! It also worked for me

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  5. ashNovember 11, 2011 at 5:17 AM

    Thank you...

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  6. GeheinerJanuary 28, 2012 at 4:12 AM

    Thank you very much! I got the problem I think after making an update too when I added a repositorie. Strange thing though, since I stayed on Ubuntu 10.10...
    Anyways, you saved my day! :)

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  7. AlexVFebruary 15, 2012 at 6:50 AM

    Thanks a lot !! (from France)

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  8. erdalFebruary 17, 2012 at 2:07 AM

    Thanks a lot from Germany

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  9. Joemarie Dimzon MallorcaFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:12 PM

    Thanks I'm joemarie from Philippines

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  10. garmercmanApril 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    thank you from the lovely San Francisco bay area....

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  11. 4zsMay 1, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    did not help for me, maybe the problem is with my ppas

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  12. DoomMay 17, 2012 at 5:01 AM

    Thank you very much !from France

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  13. ciro.santilliJune 1, 2012 at 4:05 PM

    in case anyone gets this on Ubuntu 12.04 like me, I fixed the problem by first removing the old ppas:

    cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
    sudo rm matthaeus123-mrw-gimp-svn-precise.list matthaeus123-mrw-gimp-svn-precise.list.save

    and then doing the steps above.

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  14. jsbsanJune 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM

    Gracias !!!!

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  15. Luigi C.June 24, 2012 at 2:50 PM

    Good work, thanks from Italy

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  16. ІгорJune 30, 2012 at 5:18 AM

    Дякую! Мені це теж допомогло :)

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  17. UnknownSeptember 17, 2012 at 1:55 AM

    The above mentioned 4 steps worked for me after UN-installing CANON-scangear-utility for pixma printer/scanner .... PLUS removing the Matthaeus-ppa in 'old' Synaptics. Thank you very very much

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