On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:49:21 +0200 Andreas Waechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sven Neumann wrote: > > > >> It > >> is thus not possible to install this development version into the > >> same prefix with GIMP 2.0. > > > What does "prefix" mean? > Does it mean "file system folder"? > Then why call it "prefix"? You are using windows? In a unixy system, Linux is most common I guess, the install process is; 1. Unpack the file 2. configure it 3. make it 4. install it steps 2,3 and 4 are normally written as ./configure make su make install In the configure stage you can do all manner of configurations, the options available can be found by ./configure --help One of the optios is where you will install it. eg ./configure --prefix=/opt By custom, stable releases go to /usr as the default directory unstable go to /usr/local as the default directory If you want to put another instance of the program, then you must specify another directory, can be anything as long as it is not /usr or /usr/local /opt is as good as any other. If you are going to be running dozens of instances then you might want to make a series of directories /opt/gimp-v1 /opt/gimp-v2 and use them as your install prefix, eg ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-v2 and everything will go there and won't clobber any of your other libraries. HTH Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
