Re: How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread Felipe Portales
> I found a site called getdeb.net from which I can download a .deb file > containing the latest Gimp. But now what do I do? I don´t find a > command like e.g., rpm for decomposing and installing rpm files or > gunzip etc. for gzipped files. dpkg -i package-name -- Felipe Portales O. umatømø

Re: How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:55:33AM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the > latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list > from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. > exercises. But I st

Re: How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread Paul Johnson
John Culleton wrote: > I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the > latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list > from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. > exercises. But I still get Gimp 2.4.7. > > I found a site called g

Re: How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,18.Oct.08, 11:55:33, John Culleton wrote: > I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the > latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list > from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. > exercises. But I still get Gimp 2.4.7.

Re: How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:55:33 -0400, John Culleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the > latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list > from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. > exe

How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread John Culleton
I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. exercises. But I still get Gimp 2.4.7. I found a site called getdeb.net from which I can downl