Sounds like you need to do what I had to do then.  Go ahead and uninstall everything gimp related on the system and then reinstall gimp.  That should take care of your problems. Brian Cluff On 11/13/20 9:08 AM, Michael wrote: > yes.... I had otto's ppa then I installed the flatpak but I want to > use darktable to load raws into gimp so I had to reinstall the apt > version. The gentleman that told me that I needed to reinstall the apt > version then told me otto's version was no longer maintained and he > gave me a ppa that is current.. > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> Have you had a PPA version installed on this machine in the past. I got >> lots of errors like that when the PPA version fell behind of the distro >> version but had dependencies that wouldn't allow the distro version to >> install all it's dependencies. >> I was able to fix is by getting rid of the old PPA and then deleting >> everything gimp related off the system and then reinstalling gimp from >> the distros repositories. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> On 11/12/20 8:29 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> This is bizarre. I installed gimp with apt (I had it installed with >>> flAtpak) and it wouldn't start after the install. so I opened up a >>> terminal to capture any error. This is what I got: >>> >>> BABL version too old! >>> >>> GIMP requires BABL version 0.1.78 or later. >>> Installed BABL version is 0.1.74. >>> >>> Somehow you or your software packager managed >>> to install GIMP with an older BABL version. >>> >>> Please upgrade to BABL version 0.1.78 or later. >>> >>> would someone help me put the right version in? I tried to apt it in >>> but that didn't work. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss