gimp 2.9.5 failed to update (2017-01-31)
Sebastian Wright 
gimp 2.9.5 failed to update properly, and attempting to fix it with the general remedy proposed all over askubuntu fails, like this:
$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: gimp Suggested packages: gimp-help-en | gimp-help The following packages will be upgraded: gimp 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/3 548 kB of archives. After this operation, 37,9 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 220805 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gimp_2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gimp (2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980) over (2.9.5~71-0x0~ppa~00faf17) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp_2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/wavelet-decompose', which is also in package gimp-plugin-registry 7.20140602ubuntu2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp_2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $1
4 Answers
As indicated by this line:
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp_2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/wavelet-decompose', which is also in package 7.20140602ubuntu2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)the problem is that the new version of the gimp package provides a file which is also provided by the gimp-plugin-registry package, and so they cannot be installed together, and gimp-plugin-registry must be removed before the new version of gimp can be installed.
The remedy is something like this, (I did more, but these steps seemed to be the steps that actually did it).
$ sudo apt-get update ... Fetched 102 kB in 0s (110 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done $ sudo apt-get purge --remove gimp gimp-gmic gimp-plugin-registry # the related packages Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gimp-data libamd2.4.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.4.1 libccolamd2.9.1 libcholmod3.0.6 libgegl-0.3-0 libgimp2.0 libmypaint libtiff-tools libumfpack5.7.1 libwebp6 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux2 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: gimp* gimp-gmic* gimp-plugin-registry* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 26,8 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 220804 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gimp-gmic (1:1.8.0~pre-0x0~ppa~edge) ... Removing gimp-plugin-registry (7.20140602ubuntu2) ... Removing gimp (2.9.5~71-0x0~ppa~00faf17) ... Purging configuration files for gimp (2.9.5~71-0x0~ppa~00faf17) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Setting up gimp-data (2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980) ... Setting up libgegl-0.3-0:amd64 (1:0.3.11~45-0x3~ppa~39ea9fd) ... Setting up libgimp2.0 (2.9.5~79-0x21~ppa~5170980) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ... $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I used synaptic to "completely remove" the plugin registry. Seemed to work.
I found an answer similar to @Hannu's, but alas I cannot comment. Mainly the difference was I had to reinstall all the packages I purged.
sudo aptitude purge gimp gimp-gmic gimp-plugin-registry
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install gimp gimp-gmic gimp-plugin-registry
