Can't get Gimp back

[ditto1958]

Hi all. New here to this forum and pretty new to Kubuntu also.

I've had Kubuntu on my laptop for about 2 or 3 months now and have generally liked it a lot.

I have a problem, though. I was trying to use Gimp to edit some photos and I got the app so screwed up that I just wanted to go back to the default settings for it. I got impatient and un-installed it, thinking that I could just re-install and it would be back to the starting settings. For some reason, though, that did not work and now I can't get Gimp back. It will not re-install even though it is listed in Adept mgr.

[dibl]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Is that laptop connected to a network with a wired ethernet connection, or wireless?

If you're confident that the connection is OK, I'd open the Konsole and try the following:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gimp

Note any errors.

[nowshining]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

in a terminal do:

sudo apt-get remove gimp --purge

then do

sudo apt-get install gimp

alas all ur settings are stored in the gimp folder that is hidden in your home folder, just show hidden files...

--alas alas --

If the above two commands give out any errors please post them here...

[dibl]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

alas all ur settings are stored in the gimp folder that is hidden in your home folder, just show hidden files...

Oops -- I'd forgotten that.

In the Konsole (and before running gimp again), you might want to do:

mv .gimp .gimp_bak

So it comes up in default configuration.

[Argos]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

I have something similar:

when i try to remove gimp:
sudo apt-get remove gimp --purge

i get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package gimp needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

what should i do ?

[dibl]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Hmmmm. How about

sudo apt-get remove --purge gimp

"archive" is not the word I would have expected ...

You can try

sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a

to make sure your package manager is OK.

Then, it might be an issue with your sources. Do you have "backports" enabled. Maybe you need to disable it for this exercise. :P

[Argos]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Originally i installed gimp 2.6 using .deb packages i downloaded from getded.

if i run

sudo apt-get remove --purge gimp

i get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package gimp needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

and when i run

sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a

i get:
dpkg: unknown option --reconfigure
-----

When running Synaptic i get an error message:
E: The package gimp needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

and Synaptic closes.


And when i run Adept and search for gimp i see it in the list of applications with a RED "BROKEN (INSTALLED)" status

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Proper command for dpkg is:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[Argos]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Proper command for dpkg is:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

i didn't get any output. is that OK ? it just went back to the command prompt

and when i try to run update again, it still say that there is a problem with the package

[dibl]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

Proper command for dpkg is:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Oooooooops -- Snowhog is so right -- I must have had a senior moment there!

A return to the prompt, without further output, indicates the package manager finds no errors (a good thing).

It sure sounds like a problem with the source repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You might want to search this forum on the topic, and review what you have set there. You need to have "main", "universe", and "multiverse" as a minimum. I'm not sure which one holds gimp, but it is one of those standard ones.

[aged hippy]

Re: Can't get Gimp back

roflmao.

Who's got dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg on the brain: