Why does GIMP complain about missing or wrong versionsof libraries?
Probably because it can’t find them. FIXME: some of the advice given here is incorrectand even dangerous. There are a couple of solutions. The best one, if you have superuseraccess on your system, or a cooperative system administrator, is to addGIMP’s library directory to the system library configuration. To dothis, edit /etc/ld.so.conf to include /usr/local/lib and then typeldconfig and things should work from then on. If you can’t do this, add the directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATHenvironment variable. Be sure you do this in your shell’s startupscripts as well. If you have old versions of the libraries, you will probably need toremove them first, especially if they are in standard system locationssuch as /usr/lib . Don’t just delete them, though; move them somewheresafe, install the new ones, and try again. Then make sure everythingelse still works; you may have other programs on your system whichrequire the old versions. The ideal response in such a case is torebuild all the programs
