Roland Winkler wrote on 13/01/15 02:29: > Good to know, thank you. I have not yet tried to build gimp myself, > but I feel confident I should be able to get this working. > Certainly, I understand you do not want to provide bugfixes for > previous versions of gimp. > > Roland
You should not have to build (if you mean compiling, etc) it yourself. Look, for example, at: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch -- Bob Long > > On Mon Jan 12 2015 Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: >> It is a bug in this version of GIMP that no longer exists in gimp >> 2.8.0 and later - >> >> it was corrected in February - 2012 by Massimo Valentini, just prior >> to the 2.8 version release >> in May. >> >> Please take in mind that GIMP do _not_ maintain bug-fix releases of >> outdated stable versions - >> the current mainline branch is 2.8.x - and if your OS does not support >> that, either upgrade, or refrain from trying serious work on it. >> >> I am pretty shure that although GIMP 2.8 is not the official packages >> for your 2012 Ubunut, there are GIMP 2.8 builds for it available under >> alternate install methods. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
