Re: [Gimp-developer] Issue building Gimp from GIT

["Steven P. Ulrick" <meow8282 gmail com>]

On 7/3/19 8:59 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone
>
> I am running Fedora 30 and attempting to build, install & eventually 
> run GIMP from GIT. It builds & installs without error. But when I 
> attempt to run it I get the following:
>
> [steve@afolkey2 bin]$ ./gimp-2.99
> ./gimp-2.99: error while loading shared libraries: libjson-c.so.2: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Obviously the error itself makes perfect sense. Fedora 30 has 
> libjson-c.so.4, not libjson-c.so.2
>
> So the question is, why does GIMP compile and install with 
> libjson-c.so.2 not installed, but it won't run. I would assume that if 
> a file that GIMP requires if it is not going to crash is not present, 
> that GIMP would not compile. Also, what can I do to get this to work.
>
> I know that I do not need to compile GIMP from GIT. I just enjoy doing 
> it. I further understand that the issue could be with Fedora 30 or me.

Now I feel better. I just installed GIMP from the official Fedora 30 
repos and it crashes with the same error:

[steve@afolkey2 ~]$ /usr/bin/gimp
/usr/bin/gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libjson-c.so.2: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I wonder if anyone else running Fedora 30 is having this issue.


Steven P. Ulrick