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kleskjr

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Registered: 2011-12-31

Posts: 34

[SOLVED]Gimp can't open png files

Hi,

since couple of days Gimp throws me an error when trying to open png files:

GIMP Message
Opening '/home/kleskjr/Documents/docs/kopenhagen/visa_ping.png' failed: Failed to run plug-in "file-png"

GIMP Message
Plug-in crashed: "file-png"
(/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-png)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

I am using gimp-devel from the AUR.
Is there somebody experiencing similar problems?

cheers!

Last edited by kleskjr (2013-05-08 13:53:05)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,561

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Re: [SOLVED]Gimp can't open png files

There was an update to libpng, and all aur packages that depend on it (such as gimp-devel) must be rebuilt.

Eh ... if you really wanted to know if someone else was experiencing similar problems, you would have looked at recent threads on these forums - and if you had done that, you would have seen much activity relating to libpng.

Last edited by Trilby (2013-05-08 13:35:06)

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kleskjr

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Registered: 2011-12-31

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED]Gimp can't open png files

thanks, rebuilding solved it.

LeCrayonVert

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Registered: 2010-09-01

Posts: 134

Re: [SOLVED]Gimp can't open png files

By the way, you should use the gimp version from the extra repo since it is more up to date than the gimp-devel package from AUR (and then, there would be no need to worry about rebuild issue)

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