On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Henry W. Peters <hwpet...@jamadots.com> wrote: > Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge & or experience > building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP is > 2.6.1. > > Some questions I have (for example) are: Do I /really/ have to uninstall the > old version...? Any dependency issues (conflicts, etc.) ? Any way to get the > (newer) dependencies by means of the terminal? Will I be able to actually do > this (i.e.,/ do a working build with this version/)?
I have 2.6 and 2.8 on the a Mint (like Ubuntu/Debian) system. There's a build script floating around somewhere, but I can't seem to find it now (and it required heavy modification, at least for my system anyway). There's this: http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Hacking:Building/Linux I think the biggest thing to remember is to remember to prefix everything with /opt or /home/YOU/gimp/ - ie *not* put it into /usr or /usr/local/. 'apt-get build-dep gimp' should bring in several -dev packages you'll need. The rest will need to be compiled and installed in /opt or wherever. It's been some months since I went through this - I'm probably forgetting a few things, but the short answer is yes, you can compile and install 2.8 without removing 2.6. There are quite a dew deps to work through, but keep the additions outside of your system path and you should be fine. HTH, Chris _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list