gimp in natty appears to depend on old, non-installable package libpoppler-glib4

[Ryan]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Reading package lists... Done
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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gimp : Depends: libpoppler-glib4 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 2 08:43:38 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (3 days ago)

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

gimp should depend on libpoppler-glib6 and not on libpoppler-glib4 so this seems to be an ancient version?

Please issue the command
dpkg -l | grep gimp
and post the output

[Ryan (ofishkish)]

rc gimp 2.6.11-1ubuntu6 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
rc gimp-data 2.7.3-2010022601~kk Data files for GIMP
ii gimp-help-common 2.4.1-2 Data files for the GIMP documentation
ii gimp-help-en 2.4.1-2 Documentation for the GIMP (English)
ii gimp-help-es 2.4.1-2 Documentation for the GIMP (Spanish)
ii gimp-help-fr 2.4.1-2 Documentation for the GIMP (French)
ii gimpshop 2.2.11-1 GimpShop package
rc libgimp2.0 2.7.3-2010022601~kk Libraries for the GNU Image Manipulation Program

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

libpoppler-glib4 is only present in Lucid, suggesting that something may be wrong with your software sources. Please run

ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d

and post the output. Please also run the command

apt-get -s install libpoppler-glib4

and post the output. That won't actually try to install anything (and the absence of "sudo" is intentional), but it will simulate an attempt to install the package, which may reveal precisely why it cannot be installed. (On a normal Natty system, the reason is that it is not provided by any of the Natty software sources--I expect that to be the reason, but I think it's worth checking.)

In the same comment as all that information, please also go ahead and attach the file /etc/apt/sources.list.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

Changing from synaptic to gimp, since if this is a bug, it is a bug in gimp's dependencies. Also marking Incomplete in connection with the request for information in comment #4.

[Ryan (ofishkish)]

total 100
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2011-05-01 20:01 cairo-dock-team-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2011-05-01 20:01 cairo-dock-team-ppa-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 2011-03-14 19:40 cairo.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2011-05-01 20:01 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2011-05-01 20:01 google-chrome.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2011-05-01 20:01 libreoffice-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2011-05-01 20:01 libreoffice-ppa-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 2011-05-01 20:01 n-muench-firefox-daily-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 2011-05-01 20:01 n-muench-firefox-daily-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 2011-05-01 20:01 n-muench-programs-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 2011-03-14 19:40 picasa.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2011-05-01 20:01 sevenmachines-flash-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2011-05-01 20:01 sevenmachines-flash-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 2011-05-01 20:01 transmissionbt-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 2011-05-01 20:01 transmissionbt-ppa-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 2011-04-28 16:15 tualatrix-ppa-maverick.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 2011-04-30 09:47 tualatrix-ppa-maverick.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301 2011-05-01 20:01 tualatrix-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301 2011-05-01 20:01 tualatrix-ppa-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 2011-05-01 20:01 ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 2011-05-01 20:01 ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-natty.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 2011-04-28 16:15 ubuntu-wine-ppa-maverick.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 2011-04-30 09:47 ubuntu-wine-ppa-maverick.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 2011-05-01 20:01 ubuntu-wine-ppa-natty.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 2011-05-01 20:01 ubuntu-wine-ppa-natty.list.save

Package libpoppler-glib4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libpoppler-glib4' has no installation candidate

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

I suspect the problem to be the two lines and the end of sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu jaunty main # disabled on upgrade to natty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu karmic main # disabled on upgrade to natty

interesting would be the output of

apt-cache policy gimp* libpoppler-glib*

Maybe changing the last line of the sources.list to
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu natty main
might solve the problem?

[Ryan (ofishkish)]

gimp:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.7.3-2010022601~kk
  Version table:
     2.7.3-2010022601~kk 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ karmic/main i386 Packages
     2.7.2-2009090102~jj 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ jaunty/main i386 Packages
     2.6.11-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgimp2.0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.7.3-2010022601~kk
  Version table:
     2.7.3-2010022601~kk 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ karmic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.7.2-2009090102~jj 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ jaunty/main i386 Packages
     2.6.11-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
libpoppler-glib6:
  Installed: 0.16.4-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 0.16.4-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.16.4-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.16.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
gimp-data:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.7.3-2010022601~kk
  Version table:
     2.7.3-2010022601~kk 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ karmic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.7.2-2009090102~jj 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ jaunty/main i386 Packages
     2.6.11-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
gimp-help-en:
  Installed: 2.4.1-2
  Candidate: 2.4.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.1-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gimp-help:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-data-extras:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.0.1-3
  Version table:
     1:2.0.1-3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
gimp-gnomevfs:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-helpbrowser:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-libcurl:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-print:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-python:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-svg:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-wget:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
libgimp-perl:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
gimp-dbg:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.7.3-2010022601~kk
  Version table:
     2.7.3-2010022601~kk 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ karmic/main i386 Packages
     2.7.2-2009090102~jj 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu/ jaunty/main i386 Packages
     2.6.11-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
gimp-help-common:
  Installed: 2.4.1-2
  Candidate: 2.4.1-2
  Version...

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

That confirms Manfred Hampl's suspicion. In addition to changing karmic to natty in the last line of /etc/apt/sources.list, I recommend you also comment out the line right before that (the one that says jaunty), by putting a # character in front of it. Please see if those changes make a difference, and whether or not they do, please post again to report what happened.

[Ryan (ofishkish)]

Okay I got it to install, but now it will launch and then hangs and stops.

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Please issue the command

apt-cache policy gimp* libpoppler-glib*

again and paste it's output.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gimp (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Ryan
Are you still experiencing this problem? If not, you can mark this bug as Invalid (or just leave it Expired). If so, can you provide the information requested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/775590/comments/11?