Dear list: Here's my problem and a couple of questions:
I would very much like to update gimp from the latest available from your repo (gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5.x86_64) to at least version 2.4. (The current newest version is 2.6.6.). However even version 2.4 requires newer versions of gtk+ and glib than are available for SL 5.0, and each of those has long coattails of dependencies, so I am loathe to remove my current gtk+ and glib (using, say, yum) because that would break all kinds of useful stuff. So my first question is: what is my best strategy to proceed? My second question is: do later versions of SL (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) come with a later version of gimp? (If so, my best strategy might be to upgrade SL. I like SL---so reliable.) I have no trouble building packages from the source. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. -- Peter