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

Alex — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:08:05 +0000

After upgrading from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 I found gimp couldn’t access the shared libraries it needed, most likely an error with symbolic links as described by lovelyindia in this post.

Fix 1:

He managed to fix the issue by removing gimp and purging the offending libraries and then letting apt deal with the libraries when he re-installed gimp, as per the below commands:

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

While this is likely to work for most people encountering this issue, it didn’t for me.

Fix 2:

Then I remembered I had used the repogen source list generator, in which I chose to include the gimp svn build. While you may not have gone about it the same way, you may also have a different repository in your sources.list file which is causing this issue, if the previous method did not resolve the issue.

In order to fix this, I had to open the sources.list file and comment out the offending repo.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now search for any reference to gimp, in my case this was the lines I changed:

#### Gimp SVN – https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 405A15CB
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu precise main

I commented out the line linking to the repo by adding a ‘#’ to the front, as below:

#### Gimp SVN – https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn
## Run this command: sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 405A15CB
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu precise main

I then uninstalled gimp, once I knew it may have been the newly added repository that I had added:

sudo apt-get purge gimp

Then I saved and exited the file and updated apt:

sudo apt-get update

I then re-installed gimp:

sudo apt-get install gimp

This solved the issue for me, I hope this helps!

Failed to build Planner-0.14.4 in Arch Linux

Alex — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:35:43 +0000

When trying to install Gnome Planner ( http://live.gnome.org/Planner ) in Arch Linux, I came across this error:

Error:

/usr/bin/pygobject-codegen-2.0: line 11: /usr/bin/python2: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [planner.c] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Desktop/planner-0.14.4/python‘
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Desktop/planner-0.14.4′
make: *** [all] Error 2

To fix this, I made a symbolic link from /usr/bin/python2.7 to /usr/bin/python2, this should work with other similar errors involving missing python2 file.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2

Once you have made the made the symbolic link continue to make and install the program as usual.

Alex Sleat » symbolic link

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

Fix 1:

Fix 2:

Failed to build Planner-0.14.4 in Arch Linux