Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread J Fernyhough
On 7 October 2012 12:45, J Fernyhough  wrote:
> On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity  wrote:
>>
>> Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me
>> that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>
> First , if you're not confident, leave it alone. :)
>
> However, you can install ppa-purge which will allow you to roll back
> to official packages if the PPA packages don't work as expected, or
> messes up dependencies:
>
> $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
>
> This way you can try it without much risk. I'm running with that PPA
> in Quantal and it works fine for me. :)
>
> J

Apologies, I didn't read the question. :(

J

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread Elfy

On 07/10/12 13:21, Colin Law wrote:

On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity  wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version
is 2.6.1.

All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me
that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories.
I'm reluctant to mess around with this list without knowing the effects. I
use Synaptic all the time, but without a detailed understanding of how it
works behind the scenes e.g resolving dependencies. Consequently I don't
what to make a change to the repository lists which might screw things up.

First try
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If that does not do it then what do you see if you run, in a terminal
apt-cache policy gimp

and post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list

Colin

Colin



PPA's should create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

This ppa creates on at

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-precise.list

I think

Kev



Any advice?

Regards

Nige

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version
> is 2.6.1.
>
> All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install gimp
>
> Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me
> that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories.
> I'm reluctant to mess around with this list without knowing the effects. I
> use Synaptic all the time, but without a detailed understanding of how it
> works behind the scenes e.g resolving dependencies. Consequently I don't
> what to make a change to the repository lists which might screw things up.

First try
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If that does not do it then what do you see if you run, in a terminal
apt-cache policy gimp

and post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list

Colin

Colin

>
> Any advice?
>
> Regards
>
> Nige
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread J Fernyhough
On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version
> is 2.6.1.
>
> All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install gimp
>
> Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me
> that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories.
> I'm reluctant to mess around with this list without knowing the effects. I
> use Synaptic all the time, but without a detailed understanding of how it
> works behind the scenes e.g resolving dependencies. Consequently I don't
> what to make a change to the repository lists which might screw things up.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Regards
>
> Nige

First , if you're not confident, leave it alone. :)

However, you can install ppa-purge which will allow you to roll back
to official packages if the PPA packages don't work as expected, or
messes up dependencies:

$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

This way you can try it without much risk. I'm running with that PPA
in Quantal and it works fine for me. :)

J

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[ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread Nigel Verity

Hi 
I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version is 
2.6.1.
All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimpsudo apt-get updatesudo 
apt-get install gimp
Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me that 
the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories. I'm 
reluctant to mess around with this list without knowing the effects. I use 
Synaptic all the time, but without a detailed understanding of how it works 
behind the scenes e.g resolving dependencies. Consequently I don't what to make 
a change to the repository lists which might screw things up.
Any advice?
Regards
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