Can't open RAW (via RawTherapee)

Software GIMP
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I have Gimp 2.10.24 on Ubuntu 21.04
I have set Gimp as the external editor in RawTherapee 5.8 (RT)

When I click the External Edit button in RT, Gimp launches but an error appears “Opening ‘/tmp/DSC06216.tif’ failed: Error opening file /tmp/DSC06216.tif: No such file or directory”

I checked /tmp dir & tif files ARE generated & user has permission to read/write those files.

I tried setting Gimp prefs for Raw import as Placeholder & RawTherapee, but the result is the same.
I also installed darktable, but no option for import shows up for that in Gimp.

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I don’t have a direct answer for this (yet), but I’ll fire up an Ubuntu 21.04 and try it out to see.

Are you using the flatpak, snap, distribution package (or build from source)?

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Hi patdavid, I was able to fix this with some help on gimp-forum.net

I did have the snap install from Ubuntu Software app.
On advice I removed it & installed a PPA version on Launchpad here.

Now the feature works correctly.

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Snaps are sandboxed and can’t be launched in the same manner as distro packages.