On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:54:07PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: > > John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is > > > it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed to be > > > when I untar it? > > > > Just untar them and read the installation instructions in the file > > INSTALL. > > > OK the instructions say run ./configure and ./configure fails because it > can't > find a file called gimp-2.0 pc. I searched my disks (several versions of Gimp > laying around) and no such file exists. The ./configure run also says: > "couldn't find a Gimp-2.0 installation". There are about three laying around. > the solution to this is to show ./configure where the file (gimp-2.0.pc) is. running the "gimpenv" script from wgo should fix that: http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimpenv
it tells your shell what it needs to know by setting the proper environment variables. > So, back to my original question. Where should I try to untar the Gimp help > tarball? I don't want to muck up a functioning Gimp installation by untarring > them in the wrong location. > > Perhaps I am using the wrong tarball. When you go to the site and look for > help files all you can find is a directory called "test" or "testing" which > holds about 5 different versions of help files. I picked out the most recent > one, 2.05 > you are imagining opening up a tarball of html, i think. what you have downloaded is the means to make html, pdf, sgtml, xml and whoknowwhatelseml. your question is not being asked correctly. > The best solution of course would be to have the help files integrated with > the Gimp package itself. That is the way most packages work. Failing that, a > help tarball in parallel to the current stable version and with explicit > instructions on installation (i.e. where) would be most helpful. I suppose I > will have to go to a Knoppix disk and figure out where the help files go from > its internal structure. Oh well. a tarball of html because that is all anyone will ever use? you jest! carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
