Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 [and Gentoo] with gimp 2.4.1 [solved with workaround]

Summary:

gimp-lqr-plugin: error while loading shared libraries:

Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

Anonymous (85.228.109.x) 11 Nov 2007 10:01

Hi,
I have been trying to install Liquid Rescale with gimp 2.4.1 on FC6.
I'm new at this install from source stuff,

Gimp was built from source as I could not find a rpm for FC6.
the gimp .po files look to be located in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
so for Liquid rescale I used
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure
I do not see any errors ??? during the configuration , make or make install
the liquid rescale plugin is installed in the /usr/local/lib/gimp/plug-in
but stating gimp gives

gimp-lqr-plugin: error while loading shared libraries:

what am I doing wrong ???

Thanks

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

CarloB 11 Nov 2007 23:50

I don't quite understand that part about PKG_CONFIG_PATH: this should be the path to the pkg-config utility, and the .po files shouldn't have anything to do with it.
On the other hand, I also don't understand why you don't get any errors from configure, and what's the meaning of the error message.

Did you compile GIMP with some strange option for the install location? Otherwise you shouldn't pass any variable to the configure plugin script.
Did you try it the normal way? What do you get?

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

Anonymous (85.228.109.x) 12 Nov 2007 09:23

Hi UnNeurone,
Gimp was built from source, with the normal ./configure, make, make install.
so it's installed in /usr/local/bin and as far as I can see the libs are in /usr/local/lib
Using the source tar ball for liquid Rescale,
And running a root user.
./configure gives
Package requirements (gimp-2.0 >= 2.2.0 gimpui-2.0 >= 2.2.0) were not met:
No package 'gimp-2.0' found
No package 'gimpui-2.0' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix
so using PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig so pkg-config will find the gimp-2.0.pc and gimpui-2.0.pc files
and then ran PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure
No errors after doing this.
run make and make install
Check usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins and gimp-lqr-plugin is there.
cd to /usr/local/bin and start gimp
and this is the error.
/usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gimp-lqr-plugin: error while loading shared libraries: libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Confused ? me too.
I know I'm doing something dumb but just can't figure out what !

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

CarloB 12 Nov 2007 10:48

I see, I think the problem is the configure script.

Try launching the autogen.sh script from inside the gimp-lqr-plugin directory, then make/make install again.

If you get the same error, try this (desperate move :) ):

• locate the gimp libraries directory (let's say it's /usr/local/lib)
• edit the configure.in file, changing the line
  

GIMP_LIBDIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=gimplibdir gimp-2.0`

with the line

GIMP_LIBDIR="/usr/local/lib"

• launch the autogen.sh script again

I hope this works, otherwise I don't have a clue.
Let me know… good luck!

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

Anonymous (85.228.109.x) 12 Nov 2007 13:53

Hi UnNeurone

Sorry it's bad news I'm afraid,
I'm still getting the same error
l had to give autogen.sh the PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
and still no luck when starting gimp.
then I edited the configure.in file as sugested
re ran the autogen.sh
but still no luck .
If I take the first "missing" lib which is libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0
and make a link in /usr/lib to usr/local/lib so in /usr/lib I have
libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0
then I don't get a error for that lib. so looks like the plugin is only happy if the libs are in /usr/lib.

As I said
I know I'm doing something dumb but just can't figure out what !

E

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

CarloB 12 Nov 2007 15:04

Does this mean you managed to make it work? This would be good news!
If it's so, I will update the installation instructions, and report to the GIMP developers (the autogen+configure scripts came from the gimp-plugin-template) or try to solve it myself (this is unlikely).

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1

Anonymous (85.228.109.x) 12 Nov 2007 15:35

Hi UnNeurone,

Sorry I should have said
If I make links for all the required libs

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 10 15:22 libgimpui-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpui-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Nov 12 14:45 libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Nov 12 14:46 libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 12 14:47 libgimp-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimp-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Nov 12 14:48 libgimpmath-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpmath-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Nov 12 14:48 libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpconfig-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Nov 12 14:49 libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Nov 12 14:50 libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0

Then I don't get any errors when starting gimp, and the plugin works.
Thanks for the help, suppose you can mark this a work round ???
E

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1 [solved with workaround]

CarloB 26 Nov 2007 16:20

I have read that a common problem in RedHat-based systems is that they don't include /usr/local/lib in the linker search path.

The correct solution thus may be adding /usr/local/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf.

In order to test this, it should be possible to use an environment variable before invoking gimp, like this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH gimp

If someone tries this, please post the result.

Last edited on 26 Nov 2007 17:07 by CarloB Show more

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1 [solved with workaround]

Anonymous (87.168.33.x) 12 Dec 2007 11:56

yes had luck with adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
on gentoo 2007.1
Thanks

Re: Install trouble Liqid Rescale on FC6 with gimp 2.4.1 [solved with workaround]

Anonymous (89.3.79.x) 23 Aug 2008 22:05

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

it's on gentoo kernel.
thanks