Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

[Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet gmail com>]

What distro are you using? python2.7 and the rest are available on Debian
10. I think it is an issue for the distro creators to address as all the
necessary packages exist in vanilla Debian.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:51 PM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list <
gimp-user-list gnome org> wrote:

> > Do you have python installed? On my Ubuntu system the 'python' package is
> 2.7.
> I had not.
>
> The second dpkg call, where I attempted to install both gimp-python and
> python-gtk2 from my previous
> debian install (in another partition), apparently left a record of its
> attempt, for when I called up synaptic
> to see if python was installed, python and six or eight other
> python-related packages were already selected
> for install to correct 'broken' packages.
> Once I let it install them, I called the dpkg call again, and was
> successful.
>
> Note that my success was only because I had my earlier debian install
> available to raid, and that the apt
> package cache had not been cleaned out and the two packages were right
> there.
>
> Someone who had newly come to debian testing or sid, or had erased his
> previous install when installing,
> or who had been a good housekeeper and cleaned out his cached packages,
> would not have had the option
> that was ultimately successful for me.
>
> I assume gimp-python will have to be updated to use python3 at some point,
> or more and more people will
> find that GIMP no longer will be able to run python plugins.
> (I don't know if all, some or few of the plugins will have to be updated
> as well - if the Python API has changed
> enough to be a problem for legacy Python apps/plugins, or not...)
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