SOLVED! Gimp disappeared and had to be reinstalled

[otlichnik73]

Hi, everyone! Just wondering if anyone else experienced this, and what I can learn from this: I noticed that Gimp disappeared completely from the menu (although the files were still there in /etc/gimp and /usr/share/gimp. I had to reinstall it, which worked fine. Noticed that the new installation was a flatpak. Any comments, anything I need to learn form all this? Cheers!

[mikeflan]

I noticed that Gimp disappeared completely from the menu

That is unexpected behavior. If you used the menu search bar and it didn't show up, that would concern me a little bit.

All versions of Gimp that I have tried work pretty good. Sometimes the floating toolbars get in my way, but the program works well. I don't think I have tried the Flatpak, but I probably should change to it.

[Da Londo]

Could it just be the difference in naming in the menu? It's listed as GNU Image Manipulation Program instead of GIMP these days.

[mikeflan]

Not if you using the menu search bar and searching for GIMP. GNU Image Manipulation Program shows up.

[Grayfox]

Did you remove any dependencies GIMP requires?

Using ldd /bin/gimp in the terminal will show what files GIMP needs.

[mikeflan]

Maybe that should be:

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ldd /usr/bin/gimp

At least in my case (LM 19.3).

[otlichnik73]

Did you remove any dependencies GIMP requires?

Using ldd /bin/gimp in the terminal will show what files GIMP needs.

Yes you are right. I subsequently fixed it by trying to install from command line, and getting error message about dependencies, and re-installing those