Re: upgrading strategy for gimp, gtk+, glib etc

2009-06-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Peter Scott wrote: 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

Re: CUPS access control

2009-06-02 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Great! Thanks Jon! Guess I never dug deep enough into the conf file to see how it's actually done - the GUI for the old version always handled things quite nicely (given our very simple setup). The syntax is foreign and a bit confusing, so it looks like further research is in order here to figur

Re: upgrading strategy for gimp, gtk+, glib etc

2009-06-02 Thread Tim Edwards
Akemi Yagi wrote: > I did not quote this CentOS forum thread here because, as I (toracat) > stated there, it was a quick and dirty way to compile / install Gimp > 2.4. I just wanted to show what system files get overwritten and that > is a no-no in an Enterprise class distribution. I think it'd be

Re: upgrading strategy for gimp, gtk+, glib etc

2009-06-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Niels Walet wrote: > have a look at this link > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11086, it > suggests it is doable, but indeed has some dependencies. I did not quote this CentOS forum thread here because, as I (toracat) stated there, it wa

Re: upgrading strategy for gimp, gtk+, glib etc

2009-06-02 Thread Niels Walet
have a look at this link http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11086, it suggests it is doable, but indeed has some dependencies. This German site on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/augustusburg/) suggest they have ready-made gimp 2.4 for centos/RHEL; should proba

Re: upgrading strategy for gimp, gtk+, glib etc

2009-06-02 Thread g
Peter Scott wrote: > 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.). > 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