Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3 (Re: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 31, Issue 22)

[Asif Lodhi]

Thanks for the help, Owen.  I did exactly as you advised and 2.2.6 is running on my system now.  However, I am afraid I might get into run-time errors.  If this is not the case then why are there so many precautionary dependency-related instructions in the INSTALL file that comes bundled with the tar.gz?  I would like to know what trade-offs I made by not following the instructions given in the INSTALL doc and installing the gimp 2.2.6 without installing any of the latest packages (from sources) mentioned in INSTALL.

I have not yet tried the "yum update" method recommended by Steve as running configure with a different "prefix" did work.  I visited Red Hat's website page listing the gimp binaries once again but there are no 2.2.6 binaries over there.  May be the "yum update" method downloads the relevant sources to your machine, analyzes all the dependencies and configure/make/make_installs all the files over the Internet.  Any comments?

Is it safe to carry out a "yum update" exercise from root?  Or, can I also do it from a normal user account?

Thanks and best regards

Asif

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:42:05 +1000 (EST)
From: Owen Cook < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
Cc: Asif Lodhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

OK, go to your gimp-2.2.6 directory

type     ./configure --help     and have a read, even it it means little

You will see how to install in another prefix, example

./configure --prefix=/opt   will configure so that it is built in /opt

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If it doesn't work, you wont harm anything, so you have little to lose

HTH

Owen

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:32:53 +0300
From: Steve Stavropoulos < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Asif Lodhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

Redhat updated gimp to 2.2 shortly after the release of fedora 3. Your
best chance to get this working is to run yum update gimp* This will
download and install gimp 2.2.4 and any other software needed. (I
_strongly_ suggest to also do a yum update gtk2*)
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