On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:16 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > > > 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 > > I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. > You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 > are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor > gotchas there. > > I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: > http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html > > ...Akkana > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
I mainly work under Fedora 9, which recently upgraded to gimp 2.6.3. But I recently got a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 installed. I believe it is 8.04 LTS. I'm new to ubuntu, so I wonder if you could enlighten me about its update policy. If I understand how ubuntu does things, which is highly uncertain, regular releases only receive upgrades to packages for 6 months until the next release, but the LTS releases receive upgrades for packages for three years. Is that correct? If so, can I expect gimp to be upgraded in the near future? I've compiled gimp from source before on several occasions, and the help you provided will make that easier, but I would rather not bother, since the laptop is a secondary machine for me. -- Leonard Evens <l...@math.northwestern.edu> Mathematics Department, Northwestern University _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
