On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM, erroneus <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: >>I suggest you read these instructions (ignore the ubuntu bias); > >>http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu > >>If that's a whole new world, you will find it an interesting learning >>curve > > It's not a "whole new" world, but it's not something I've done in a long > while. I would love it if someone were to explain what everything there does > and why they are doing it like that. > > When I went to compile the things myself, I kept getting "gegl" and/or "bebl" > versions not correct even though I had just compiled those libraries as the > newest. It keeps identifying the other versions I have installed instead. > (Would it be best to uninstall those? I suppose I should try) > > It's nice to have "here's what you do" but when accompanied with what it > means and why, then you have real learning. > > I think CentOS uses gtk+ 2.x. So you shouldn't have to mess with system files.
Suppose you want to build and install Gimp 2.8 in $HOME/opt. So that we don't mess with system libraries ( seems like you have gegl/babl installed already), we will ask Gimp to look somewhere else. Export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH Now make babl (which has minimal dependencies. Something like: cd babl ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/gimp-2.8 make; make install cd gegl ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/gimp-2.8 --disable-docs make; make install cd gimp ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/gimp-2.8 make; make install Now you should have gimp 2.8 installed in $HOME/opt/gimp-2.8 To run gimp, simply do: $HOME/opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp and you should be good to go. Hope that helps. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
