[Gimp-user] installing gimp-1.2.5-6mdk

2003-10-27 Thread david
Hi

I downloaded and then attempted to install the above rpm of the gimp.  I 
had two dependency problems the first I met-libgimp1.2-1.2.5-6mdk.i586.rpm.

The second is proving trickier.  The second dependency is a perl file 
called file::Slurp.  Last night I cpan'ed the file.  I thought 
everything should be ok...so I went for a retry in installing gimp.  
gimp still thought the file was missing.  So this morning I went 
directly to the cpan website and downloaded the Slurp source file.  That 
installed ok.  I retryed installing the gimp.  Again the Slurp file was 
not recognised.  So I thought sod-it and installed the gimp with 
--nodeps.   It installed ok.  The gimp opened ok aswell.  But I wonder 
if the gimp will function ok without file::Slurp?

david

___
Gimp-user mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user


Re: [Gimp-user] installing gimp-1.2.5-6mdk

2003-10-27 Thread pcg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:40:23AM +, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The second is proving trickier.  The second dependency is a perl file 
 called file::Slurp.  Last night I cpan'ed the file.  I thought 

No matter how often you download and install File::Slurp, rpm won't take
notice of that.

You would need a rpm of that perl module, which probably is somewhere near
the original rpm, or part of your distribution (mandrake?).

 not recognised.  So I thought sod-it and installed the gimp with 
 --nodeps.   It installed ok.  The gimp opened ok aswell.  But I wonder 
 if the gimp will function ok without file::Slurp?

If File::Slurp is installed gimp will use it. It's just that the rpm
insists on having a _rpm_ version of File::Slurp. If you install it
without rpm and override rpm using --nodeps all should be fine.

-- 
  -==- |
  ==-- _   |
  ---==---(_)__  __   __   Marc Lehmann  +--
  --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |e|
  -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\   XX11-RIPE --+
The choice of a GNU generation   |
 |
___
Gimp-user mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user


Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up printing ...

2003-10-27 Thread pcg
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:16:57PM +, Dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Since Debian compiles for a i386  I have a PIII I have re-compiled 
 Gimp, cupsys-driver-gimpprint  libgimpprint1. To my supprise this has 
 made no difference.

You can expect a 3-20% performance increase even in good situations
only.

I don't know what the actual problem is, but if you have a high system
time, then maybe the kernel does polling when acessing your printer port,
which often costs a lot of cpu time.

-- 
  -==- |
  ==-- _   |
  ---==---(_)__  __   __   Marc Lehmann  +--
  --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |e|
  -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\   XX11-RIPE --+
The choice of a GNU generation   |
 |
___
Gimp-user mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user


Re: [Gimp-user] installing gimp-1.2.5-6mdk

2003-10-27 Thread david




Hi

thanks everyone for the help/advice. I was just a bit concerned about
this matter.

David

Ps--interesting info all the same.

Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

  
The GIMP, in your case, is not installed without SLURP at all, because 
you installed it manually.

Actually, your problems have absolutely nothing  to do with The GIMP 
per se - they are rpm related.

Let me try not to confuse you:
RPM is a system to automate the instalation of (oftenly) pre-compiled 
programs. One part that it automates is to check if all the other 
programs/files the desired program requires are installed on your 
system. The trick is that RPM doesn't check against the files 
themselves, but check in a RPM database. This means that it will only 
know about programs that you install using RPM itself.

In your case, you say you hand-installed SLURP, so the file never got 
registered at the RPM database, as this is a step RPM itself performs 
when installing a file, and so, as far as RPM can tell, that file is 
not installed.

However, for the GIMP, if the file can be located at all, it will work 
normally.

On another issue, if it is a perl file, the most it can do is break 
part of GIMP-perl functionality. This doesn't affect core GIMP 
functionality at all, as gimp-perl is optional.

Regards,
	JS
	--

On Monday 27 October 2003 8:40 am, david wrote:
  
  
Hi

I downloaded and then attempted to install the above rpm of the
gimp.  I had two dependency problems the first I
met-libgimp1.2-1.2.5-6mdk.i586.rpm.

The second is proving trickier.  The second dependency is a perl
file called file::Slurp.  Last night I cpan'ed the file.  I thought
everything should be ok...so I went for a retry in installing gimp.
gimp still thought the file was missing.  So this morning I went
directly to the cpan website and downloaded the Slurp source file. 
That installed ok.  I retryed installing the gimp.  Again the Slurp
file was not recognised.  So I thought sod-it and installed the
gimp with --nodeps.   It installed ok.  The gimp opened ok aswell. 
But I wonder if the gimp will function ok without file::Slurp?

david

___
Gimp-user mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user