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I get the following error while trying to install gimp either through Ubuntu-software of Terminal:

error: snap "gimp" has "install-snap" change in progress

When I run the command "snap changes". It displays:

ID Status Spawn Ready Summary

30 Doing today at 16:23 IST - Install "gimp" snap

I searched there is no gimp process with id as 30. Rebooted the computer but nothing worked. I am a novice to ubuntu and Linux environment. what should I do? Please help...

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The ID is not the ID of a process, but the ID of a failed snap install. Please do

sudo snap abort 30 && sudo systemctl restart snapd.service

Then, try reinstalling.
BTW, there are two no-snap ways to install GIMP; by Flatpak or Ubuntu's repositories. The latter is:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install gimp

and the flatpak method is

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak && sudo apt update && sudo apt install flatpak 
flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
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