Hi Dave, Owen wrote: >> I am running Ubuntu Linux v8.04. I love Gimp 2.6 on Windows, but am >> using >> only version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu. >> >> How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu? > > > > I don't think you are going to be able to do this. > > To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and > gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 > repositories wont hold these. > > You can do it by building your own libraries from the sources, but I > guess you don't want to do that
As an afterthought to my private email, I think I agree with that. There are simply too many additional libraries to update, not just 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'. I only kept my /home partition from Ubuntu 8.04 and did a complete new install of Ubuntu 8.10. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
