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I get the following error during exporting the image to Imgur Guest or ImmIO Guest. (Throws same error for all Guest upload servers)

Error while connecting

malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/shutter/resources/system/upload_plugins/upload/Minus.pm line 145.

Please see the screen shot below enter image description here

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  • This really is a bug report. I'm happy there's a listed workaround below, but I'd like to see this cross referenced with a bug so we can correct the ubuntu packaging.
    – lazyPower
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 20:04

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Wintermute seems to be right, it's just broken (as of now). However, in the link he provided, there seems to be a patch.

What you need to do is download the "Imgur.patch" file, and put it next to "Imgur.pm" found in:

/usr/share/shutter/resources/system/upload_plugins/upload/

Then go to that directory in your terminal, then run 

sudo patch Imgur.pm Imgur.patch

This should use the .patch file to patch Imgur.pm. If it goes over well, the console should just output "patching file Imgur.pm" and nothing else.

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  • This worked, Thanks. $ sudo patch Imgur.pm ~/Imgur.patch patching file Imgur.pm patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line Hunk #3 succeeded at 101 with fuzz 1.
    – Mani Deep
    Commented Sep 16, 2016 at 5:31
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Imgur guest upload is currently broken. You can use alternatives like Imgur-Screenshot until it's fixed.

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    not only imgur, other guest sites are also throwing same error.
    – Mani Deep
    Commented May 2, 2016 at 8:02

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