Ubuntu – How to repair the system if I forgot to remove the Gimp registry plugin when using Gimp 2.8

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I've installed gimp 2.8 on ubuntu 12.04 forgetting to remove gimp registry plug-in and now I can not open gimp, remove it, repair it and the ubuntu software centre doesn't work anymore saying me I've to repair the dameged packages, but when I try to do it it doesn't work!!!
How can I solve my problem?
thanks!!!

Best Answer

Firstly remove the Gimp 2.8 repository by running these commands:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

and then run:

sudo apt-get update

Now remove the plugin-registry as it is not supported on 2.8:

sudo apt-get remove gimp-plugin-registry

Once that's done you can install Gimp 2.8:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
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