Hello. I am running Gimp 2.8.2 on Linux, Debian Wheezy 32bit. Before today, I had GMIC 1.5.9.0 installed and working fine. I installed 1.6.1.0 and it does not show up in the list. So, then I put 1.5.9.0 back, and now this one will not show up in the list either. I tried both of them again in local and global, and I even went as far as doing a complete remove, system clean, and re-install of Gimp. No luck.

Any thoughts on what could be causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

On Linux, this is somehow quite easy to understand the issue.
Suggestion :
- Open a console.
- Go to the folder where you have installed your plug-in binary, for instance :

- Try executing the gmic_gimp file :


What does it say ? I suspect some library file missing.
If so, you just need to install the missing libraries (with your package manager), and do the test again, until it works.

That is probably the answer but if it doesn't work...
Try installing the latest Gimp-2.8.14, I think there were some minor problems with a few of the earlier versions.

@Ronounours: This is the output

I did figure out why 1.5.9.0 would not start. Somehow during the testing I did, the "make executable" checkbox was unchecked, but now it works as before. However, 1.6.1.0 is marked executable, but I get the error above.

@Molly: Thanks for the tip, but 2.8.2 is the newest available version on Wheezy. I'd have to install Jessie or Sid to get 2.8.14.

@Millie, I get caught up in that a lot. I was using Windoze for so many years that you didn't have to make it executable and give it permissions because they came with the .exe extension. Most plug-ins are already checked but
a few aren't.

Millie, if the 1.6.1.0 is marked as executable, it shouldn't display this error message.
May you try this :

on the 1.6.1.0 version to see what happens ?

I double checked before running the script. It is marked as executable. And just to make sure, I downloaded a "fresh" copy of 1.6.1.0 and tested both.

I still get the same error.

I just went snooping around the G'MIC files on sourceforge and downloaded 1.6.0.4, works as it should. I also tried 1.6.2.0 prerelease...same error as 1.6.1.0.

Run 'ls' in this dir to see if gmic_gimp is there.

My G'MIC path

@Odinbc. Yes, it's there, and it runs the older plugins as normal.

/usr/lib/..... is for global use on multi-user setups. Anyone that logs in can use it.

/home/..... is for single user application, even on multi-user computers. So, not everyone that can log on to your computer can use it. The plugin would not show up for other users when they open gimp.

Something very strange. I do think someone will figure it out for you eventually

Thanks Molly. I think it's a good thing to try and figure out what is happening with the latest version of the plugin. I could just go back to an older version (and may have to), but if there is a bug in this one, now is the time to see if we can hammer it out. "Kill that bug!"

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ha, it seems the file 'gmic_gimp_linux32.zip' contains the 64bit version of the plug-in !
I need to fix that

Ok millie, so after some investigation, I found that there was a small bug in my release script, which makes the 64bits version of the plug-in binary to be copied with the name 'gmic_gimp_linux32.zip'. I've been able to fix this, so thanks a lot for reporting
Fortunately, the files with the full version name do not have this problem, so you can get your plug-in binary from there :

http://gmic.eu/

and this should work as expected.

EDIT : Ah no, it is still the 64bits version, I need to update the binaries clearly!


Let me know

David.

Hi David. Just so you know, the link above pulls down gmic_gimp_1.6.2.0_prerelease_linux32. I tried it, but it didn't work.

You keep'em coming...I'll keep testin'em!

Hello Millie,
It appears there have been some changes by the administrators on the 32-bits PC I'm using at my lab to compile the G'MIC binaries for 32 bits architectures.
The version of g++ has been apparently modified, and it now compiles binaries only for 64bits arch....
As you can imagine, it is very bad, because now, I cannot compile a code on this machine and execute it on the same machine

So far, I don't have many solutions, because it was the main computer I use to build my 32bits binaries of G'MIC.
I'm currently trying to build it on my old computer at home, I'll post the result as soon as possible for 1.6.0.2_prerelease.
I hope the administrators will find a way to solve this problem (but we are friday night here... so no answers before Monday probably).

OK, I've finally succeeded !
Here is the link that should work :

http://gmic.eu/

Let me know if that works for you !

Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it did not work. I ran it in the terminal and got:

I then checked for libcurl.so.4 in synaptic, but it isn't listed.

In reply to your previous post about not being available until Monday, that's OK, I'm in no hurry. It's good that you found the source of the trouble. If you want to keep testing, I'm here to help.

Hi millie, try installing this package:

https://packages.debian.org/fr/sid/libcurl4-openssl-dev

This is the one i have installed to be able to compile the plugin on my Ubuntu.