New GIMP?

[chuck adams]

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 14:52:57 Brendan wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 October 2008, cherryfinals wrote:
> > The latest version of GIMP was released a week ago. I'm wondering when it
> > will show up in the repositories as a normal update.
>
> No info here, BUT, compiling it is simple, indeed.
>
> Needs:
> babl and gegl, installed  (in /usr/local is fine)
> then ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.6
> and it works a charm.

OK.  I'll bite.  How is this simple?

I am running Kubuntu 8.04.1 with the upgrades and some
additional packages added for code development, etc.

I went to  http://gimp.org/ and downloaded the source to gimp-2.6.0.

I went to http://gegl.org/babl/  and downloaded the source to babl-0.0.22

I went to http://gegl.org/ and downloaded the source to gegl-0.0.20

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Starting with babl first, as gegl depends upon it:

With file  babl-0.0.22.tar.bz2

    bzip2 -d babl-0.0.22.tar.bz2
    tar xvf babl-0.0.22.tar
    cd babl-0.0.22
    make
    sudo make install

I had to install intltool using the Adept Manager to get the later version 
>0.35.5

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With file  gegl-0.0.20.tar.bz2

   bzip2 -d gegl-0.0.20.tar.bz2
   tar xvf gegl-0.0.20.tar
   cd gegl-0.0.20
   make

This gets the error that I need GLIB 2.14.0.  A check of the packages
available through Adept Manager shows that this version is not yet
available.  

So, at this point I am going to abandon this project until everything
we need is available to the mortal man or casual user...... :-)

This is one of those examples of the leading edge or lunatic fringe
for the latest and greatest versions.

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Are you using beta 8.10 by any chance?  This seems not to be all
that simple and I consider myself to be pretty well educated.  Or
at least I spent a lot of money on it.

System is an AMD 64x2 system with 4GB of main memory.

FYI and thanks,




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