Installing GIMPshop and fighting with Synaptic

[Tommy Trussell]

On 2/10/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> But I'm still lacking any information on hoiw to get gimpShop
> installed. Can anyone advise on how to do that?

Did you miss the message from Dan? He's using Dapper -- what version
of Ubuntu are you running? He said he had success with compiling from
source AND with the backport someone created.

> Have you tried compiling from source? I just gave it a quick go, and
> it seems to compile fine (the errors I got were solved on the
> website).
>
> I've just tried the .deb from
> http://linux.suramya.com/tutorials/Install_GIMPShop/ and had to find
> libtiff3g from debians oldstable. The rest of the dependencies should
> be in the repositories (I'm using dapper).
>
> Theres mention of (an old) ubuntu package here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=67525 which seems to work
> fine with dpkg -i.
>
> Dan
>