Hi,

most probably you are experiencing problems with the EXIF data in your images. Please make sure that you are using the latest released versions of libexif and GIMP. There have been many bug fixes recently, in particular for images from Olympus cameras.

Sven

Yes, I have got the same answer from another forum as well. I have libexif 0.6.13 installed. It's the version that is available in one of the repositories when Ubuntu 7.04 is just installed. I use the automatic update
all the time, and so far there has not been an update for that file.

So I downloaded libexif 0.6.16, since someone said that he fixed his problem
(the same as mine) with that file after compiling and installing it manually.

I am a newbie of compiling so I am not sure if I was doing everything I should, because efter installing it, the same problem persisted.

I downloaded an archive which I unpacked in a folder in my home folder. Then
I opened a terminal, went to that folder, which contained files like INSTALL
(where I could read about how to install), configure and a lot of other files.

Then I followed the instructions: ./configure
make
make install

There was a lot of "permission denied" in the last step, so I tried sudo make install which seemed to work.

The problem is that it seems like I still have the old version. The images still can't be loaded, for the same reason as before. So right now I don't know what went wrong. Do I still have the old version? Do I have the new version, but need an even newer one? Do I have both versions so I need to make GIMP use the new one rather than the old one?

As I said, I am a hopeless beginner so far...

Johnny Rosenberg

2007/9/24, Sven Neumann :

Hi,

most probably you are experiencing problems with the EXIF data in your images. Please make sure that you are using the latest released versions of libexif and GIMP. There have been many bug fixes recently, in particular for images from Olympus cameras.

Hi,

I don't want to put you off, but at 'newbie' level, you might be in trouble.

Where did you install the libexif libraries? The default normally is /usr/local so you will no doubt have a /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libexif.pc

A short and meaningless answer is that "You should rebuild Gimp from source and use the EXIF_LIBS flags to pick up the new libexif library, or export your PKG_CONFIG variable to read /usr/local/lib first.

However, before you build from source, you will need to install a number of development files, all of which are on the Ubuntu distro.

If you are persistent, you will win, but if there is a new Ubuntu coming out next month, it might be quicker to see what goodies it holds.

Owen

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

Yes, I have got the same answer from another forum as well. I have libexif 0.6.13 installed. It's the version that is available in one of the repositories when Ubuntu 7.04 is just installed. I use the automatic update all the time, and so far there has not been an update for that file.

So I downloaded libexif 0.6.16, since someone said that he fixed his problem (the same as mine) with that file after compiling and installing it manually.

I am a newbie of compiling so I am not sure if I was doing everything I should, because efter installing it, the same problem persisted.

I downloaded an archive which I unpacked in a folder in my home folder. Then I opened a terminal, went to that folder, which contained files like INSTALL (where I could read about how to install), configure and a lot of other files.

Then I followed the instructions: ./configure
make
make install

There was a lot of "permission denied" in the last step, so I tried sudo make install which seemed to work.

The problem is that it seems like I still have the old version. The images still can't be loaded, for the same reason as before. So right now I don't know what went wrong. Do I still have the old version? Do I have the new version, but need an even newer one? Do I have both versions so I need to make GIMP use the new one rather than the old one?

As I said, I am a hopeless beginner so far...

Johnny Rosenberg

1. Unless you uninstalled the old version, it's still there.

2. Unless you did sudo ldconfig the new one won't work (though a reboot would probably do it for you).

HTH

Andrew

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 02:34:13 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

Do I still have the old version?

[...]

Do I have both versions so I need to make GIMP use the new one rather than the old one?

Maybe. Try "ldd $(which gimp)" & see what it says.

On this system (updated Ubuntu Fiesty) gimp is in /usr/bin/ & the libraries for it are all in /usr/lib/ (but I don't see any libexif listed).

To see what libexifs you have, try "ls -l /usr/lib/*exif*" because the compilation may have defaulted to somewhere like /usr/local/lib/ or /opt/lib/ or something else which may not be in your libraries list. Look in /etc/ld.so.conf to see which directories ldconfig searches for libraries.

If the configure did use some odd directory, try the configure line as this, then re-do the makes:

./configure --prefix=/usr

As root (sudo'ed) try an "ldconfig") & see if that changes the above ldd report.

Uhh... this is probably a mite too complex for some of y'all but it may help Johnny & can be safely ignored by others. (-:

Cheers; Leon

Hi,

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:34 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

The problem is that it seems like I still have the old version. The images still can't be loaded, for the same reason as before. So right now I don't know what went wrong. Do I still have the old version? Do I have the new version, but need an even newer one? Do I have both versions so I need to make GIMP use the new one rather than the old one?

You installed the new library to /usr/local/lib while the old one is still installed in /usr/lib and most likely the JPEG plug-in picks up the old version. Try to start gimp using the following command-line:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib gimp-2.2

Sven