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I installed the development version of Gimp, then found it too buggy, so switched back to the Ubuntu repository version. In doing so, somehow Gnome/Unity/whatever became confused and now fails to open gimp either from the sidebar, the lens thingy, or clicking on an xcf file.
Running gimp from the command line works fine, and which gimp outputs /usr/bin/gimp, which is correct.
How to fix the problem?
If you do locate gimp.desktop will it output this:?
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/gimp:gimp.desktop
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop
If there are some excess lines starting with /usr/local/share, your deinstallation may have failed. Unfortunately there seems to be no command to let the unity-applications-daemon refresh its application cache.
You may achieve this by logging out and in.
/usr/local/share/applications/gimp.desktop... reboot doesn't help. can I just delete that file?
– yuttadhammo
Oct 18 '11 at 19:13
find /usr/share/local/ | grep gimp - there may be some leftovers that may conflict with the repository version.
– aquaherd
Oct 18 '11 at 22:10
/usr/local/share, not /usr/share/local; so it's safe to delete the /usr/local/share/gimp directory?
– yuttadhammo
Oct 19 '11 at 12:18
./configure && make && sudo make install, you should keep the sources to do a later sudo make uninstall which will remove all the cruft under /usr/local/.
– aquaherd
Oct 19 '11 at 16:17
