Re: Unable to start gimp

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
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On 12/2/22 9:38 AM, James Kolata wrote:
> Output of echo $PATH:
> 
> /opt/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/upak-macosx/hhirf:.:/opt/sw/lib/perl5/ExtUtils:/opt/sw/bin:/opt/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Users/jkolata1/geant4.9/bin/Darwin-g++:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/nuclear/bin
> 
> 
> The path works for all other programs so I don’t think that’s the problem.  The instructions for gimp state that it’s to be called using “gimp”, but
> that didn’t work.  I only used “gmp5” just in case the calling name had been changed.
> 
> Here is the output from fink list for gmp5:
> 
>   i   gmp5                       6.2.1-1              GNU multiple precision arithmetic library
>   i   gmp5-shlibs                6.2.1-1              Shared library for gmp package
> 
> 
> and for gimp2, which I also have installed.   I can start it using “gimp2”.
> 
>       gimp-print-shlibs          4.2.5-1              [virtual package representing Apple's install of Gimp Print]
>       gimp-print7-shlibs         5.0.0-beta2-1        [virtual package representing Apple's install of Gimp Print]
>   i   gimp2                      2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-default              2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-dev                  2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-help                 2.6.1-1              GIMP documentation
>   i   gimp2-shlibs               2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-svg                  2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-svg-default          2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-svg-dev              2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
>       gimp2-svg-shlibs           2.6.12-6             The GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.0
> 
> It seems that gmp5 is not a gimp package?  The list name indicates that it’s some kind of library instead.

The end user executable for gimp2 is `gimp-2.6`. If you want to just 
have `gimp`, install the small package gimp2-default.

The command `dpkg -L gimp2` will tell you all the files that a package 
installs. It can be useful when you're not quite sure what file you need 
to use.

Hanspeter

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