[ILUG] GIMP 2.6 installation

[Conor Mac Aoidh]

Thanks for the reply the info was very usefull. I will try and compile  
first but if I can't get through it I'll just download a package. I'll  
have another go at installing it tonight and I'll let you know if I  
have any problems.

Thanks

Conor
http://macaoidh.name

On 12 Dec 2008, at 01:38, Phil Bradley <philb at vodafone.ie> wrote:

> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Always install packages if at all possible
>> (I.E. if you're not actually going to hack on the gimp).
>> gimp 2.6 is already available for fedora 9 & 10:
>>  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=407
>> and ubuntu intrepid:
>>  http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gimp&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>> I.E. it's not bleeding edge so you'll probably find
>> (backported) packages for whatever distro you're using.
>
> Just to clarify, you can install applications by downloading and  
> compiling the source directly from the application developers. It  
> sounds like to might have done this with Gimp. While this is an  
> option, and you might learn something in doing it, it's not  
> generally the optimal way to go about things for the average (Linux)  
> user.
>
> Mandriva uses a system called RPM to bundle up applications (sorry  
> if this is bleedin obvious). Your distro should include some sort of  
> tool for searching for and installing RPMs and, since RPMs list any  
> other RPMs on which they depend, it will also figure out  
> automatically the full list of what you need and get it all  
> automatically.
>
> I don't use Mandriva but my understanding is that "cooker" is how  
> the development version is referred to. See the link below for more:
>
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development
>
> Now, if I've misunderstood your question, and if you really do want  
> to compile Gimp 2.6 from source, that's a whole other issue. The  
> fact that you have installed babl and it thinks you haven't is  
> likely down to the fact that you probably need to install babl- 
> devel. A lot of distros create a separate x-devel RPM (where x is  
> the name of a package) which contains the .h files and various other  
> files that are not needed by the average user of "x" but are needed  
> for compiling anything that depends on "x". You'll come up against  
> this with many other packages if you want to compile Gimp from  
> scratch.
>
> If you really like compiling stuff, you might consider using Gentoo  
> Linux. Otherwise, I'd suggest just sticking to whatever binary  
> packages are supplied by your distribution.
>
> Cheers,
> -Phil
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