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Hi I'm a linux newbie and am having some problems with installing Gimp 2.8. I previously installed Gimp 2.6 onto my 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 machine using Ubuntu Software Center. However, I recently tried out 2.8 and found that I like the changes and would like to install this version instead. So, I looked up how to install and tried the following method:

Uninstalled Gimp 2.6 using the following methods:

1) Uninstalled using Software Center (and uninstalled all add-ons)

I have tried the following command-line actions as well:

$sudo apt-get remove gimp
$sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry
$sudo apt-get purge gimp*

It uninstalled fine, and was no longer listed as installed in Software Center.

Then I tried the standard method to install Gimp via terminal:

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install gimp

This worked perfectly on my laptop, which now has Gimp 2.8 installed and working great. However, on my desktop I ran into a problem at the first stage of trying to add the repository.

Upon the first step (" $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp"), I get the following error message in terminal:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
[sudo] password for daniel: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 8, in <module>
    from softwareproperties.SoftwareProperties import SoftwareProperties, expand_shortcut_line
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 53, in <module>
    from ppa import AddPPASigningKeyThread, expand_ppa_line
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 31, in <module>
    import pycurl
ImportError: libheimbase.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And then when I carry out the rest of the actions via terminal it installs the 2.6 version of Gimp.

Both computers are running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I did look into the libheimbase.so.1 file listed a bit (it is in the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory) and it seems like it is absent from my Desktop (which is the one having the problems) but present on my laptop.

I don't know exactly why this problem exists, as I generally try to keep the two systems pretty similar- but it's possible I accidentally uninstalled/removed this file on my Desktop (or never installed it).

Anyway, I was wondering what exactly is happening and how I can possibly fix this so I can install the Gimp repository (and thus Gimp 2.8) on my Desktop?

Thank you!

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So, in case anyone else runs into this problem, I figured out how to fix this. It was actually a problem with the apt-get-repository package itself, rather than something to do with gimp. So I'm thinking I must have removed the above mentioned libheimbase.so.1 file while uninstalling something else, since this seems to be a shared file/library. So I looked up the origins of this file and it's part of the package: libheimbase1-heimdal

So I installed/reinstalled this package:

sudo apt-get install libheimbase1-heimdal --reinstall

Then did the normal actions for installing the repository and gimp.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

and everything is working perfectly now!

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