Subj : GIMP Up
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Sep 02 2025 06:59:00


Hi Mike!

 > So this suggestion is now too late but at the time you could have used
 > the apt-hold option to retain a set of files:
 >        sudo apt-mark hold <application>
 >        sudo apt-mark hold <associated libraries -- wildcard allowed>
 MP> If I had known what I know now, I probably would have.  I
 MP> initially upgraded a test system and played around some with the
 MP> programs I use the most, but I didn't test them enough
 MP> apparently.

Hindsight is 20/20!  


 MP> If I had it to do over again, I would have held both gimp and
 MP> audacity -- the latter may be an issue with using it with lxqt,
 MP> though, as I have not tried to reproduce the error with gnome
 MP> yet.

It may be worthwhile to have a dedicated machine and/or a Virtual 
Machine to run the old utilities on -- of course the problem is do the 
upgrade and the programme no longer works but you may not know until too
late.


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