[Gimp-user] Where to put help files?

2007-01-17 Thread John R. Culleton
Assuming that there is a directory /usr/local/gimp-23.13 where should I unpack the help files so that Gimp can find them? Slackware Linux 11. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help files?

2007-01-17 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 1:23 pm, John R. Culleton wrote: Assuming that there is a directory /usr/local/gimp-23.13 where should I unpack the help files so that Gimp can find them? Slackware Linux 11. In my installation (SUSE), the Gimp help files are in /opt/gnome/share/gimp/2.0/help.

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-19 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Sven Neumann schreef: Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK the instructions say run ./configure and ./configure fails because it can't find a file called gimp-2.0 pc. I searched my disks (several versions of Gimp laying around) and no such file exists. gimp-2.0.pc is installed

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-19 Thread Michael Schumacher
Jogchum Reitsma wrote: Sven Neumann schreef: gimp-2.0.pc is installed into $prefix/lib/pkgconfig. It's a standard thing that a lot of software packages use these days. Please consider to read the pkg-config man-page to learn more about it. The man-page will also explain you how to use the

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jogchum Reitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid I have to confirm John's problem: there simply is no file called gimp-2.0.pc on my system. You are missing the gimp-devel package then. If you want to install the user manual from source, you need to have the GIMP development package

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-19 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Michael Schumacher schreef: Jogchum Reitsma wrote: I'm afraid I have to confirm John's problem: there simply is no file called gimp-2.0.pc on my system. So the question is IMHO not how to direct configure to the place the file is on disk (there is no such place) but where that file can be found

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-17 Thread Bob Long
On Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:05 PM [GMT+1=CET], Jozsef Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you install it on the windows version? Help, which will work with GIMP 2.0.5, is here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Unzip and put into: C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\, or wherever your GIMP is

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
How do you install it on the windows version? You use the help installer package. HTH, Michael -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ ___ Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-15 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 11 December 2004 19:32, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Jozsef Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also cannot understand the reason behind not integrating the help files with Gimp. We did so in the past and it was a nightmare to maintain. Development on gimp-help works a lot better

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As it happens, Slackware and Knoppix (some versions) have Gimp but the help files are not included. Either the maintainers of these distros don't know about the separate help files or they can't figure out how to install them. The user manual

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK the instructions say run ./configure and ./configure fails because it can't find a file called gimp-2.0 pc. I searched my disks (several versions of Gimp laying around) and no such file exists. gimp-2.0.pc is installed into

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed to be when I untar it? Just untar them and read the

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Michael Schumacher
Jozsef Mak wrote: The best solution of course would be to have the help files integrated with the Gimp package itself. That is the way most packages work. Failing that, a help tarball in parallel to the current stable version and with explicit instructions on installation (i.e. where) would be

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John Culleton wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed to be

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Jozsef Mak
At which level would you like to integrate it - source tree, release tarball or binary distribution? Michael This I cannot tell, but when I compiled Inkscape from source all the tutorials were in the help file ready to use. They could solve the problem somehow. jozsefmak The GIMP

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:54:07PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Jozsef Mak
I also cannot understand the reason behind not integrating the help files with Gimp. jozsefmak The best solution of course would be to have the help files integrated with the Gimp package itself. That is the way most packages work. Failing that, a help tarball in parallel to the current stable

[Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-10 Thread John Culleton
I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed to be when I untar it? It would be very nice if the help files were integrated with the Gimp distribution, and matched that distro feature for feature. While