Bug#904544: gimp failed to launch from menu entry or terminal command

[Jun Jiang]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:28:23 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 11:12:52 +0800, Jiang Jun wrote:
> > When I click GIMP launcher from menu entry, nothing happens.
> ...
> > Versions of packages gimp depends on:
> ...
> > ii  libbabl-0.1-0        1:0.1.54-dmo1
> ...
> > ii  libgegl-0.4-0        1:0.4.6-dmo1
> ...
> > ii  libmypaint-1.3-0     1:1.3.0-dmo6
>
> You seem to have installed unofficial packages from deb-multimedia.org,
> with artificially higher versions than the versions from Debian. We
> cannot support systems with unoffical packages installed. Please install
> gimp's dependencies from Debian and try again.
>
> If this bug still exists without using deb-multimedia.org packages,
> please reply describing steps to reproduce the bug and the new symptoms,
> and include the package information from "reportbug --template gimp" so
> that we know which package versions you have installed.
>
> Thanks,
>     smcv
>
>

I didn't thought it was the same thing, but as I went through the GIMP bug
list I saw  James Van Zandt mentioned in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903514:

"Specifically:
   sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base- libopenblas-dev- \
                     libblas3 liblapack3 libblas-dev liblapack-dev

Unfortunately julia and libjulia0.6 were also removed here, since they
depend on libopenblas-base.  I intend to report this as a bug, and request
that they depend instead on the virtual packages libblas.so.3 and
liblapack.so.3 (which can also be provided by liblapack3 and libblas3,
resp.)."


And that solved my problem too. In my case, libopenblas-dev:amd64
(0.3.2+ds-1) and libopenblas-base:amd64 (0.3.2+ds-1) got removed and after
that, GIMP launched successsfully just like it used to do. Hope it helps.
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