On Friday 11 June 2004 11:11, squareyes wrote: > Hi all, > I had Gimp 2 up and running (from gimp-2.0.0-richard.1mdk.i586.rpm) on > Mandrake 10, which was installed as an update from Man 9.1. Installed > Gimp 2.0 with no probs, but have since had to reformat. > Installed Mandrake 10 as a fresh install, now am having probs getting > Gimp 2 to install from same rpm. Keep getting > > "Installation failed, some files are missing: > /mnt/cdrom/gimp-2.0.0-richard.1mdk.i586.rpm > You may want to update your urpmi database" > > Installed urpmi.setup to try and update, have no idea what I am doing, > as it seems to want to update the 4 Mandrake install disks, which is not > possible. > Have tried copying rpm to hard drive and installing from there, same. > > Tried the rpm from Mandrake cooker site, and get this error message. > > "Some package requested cannot be installed: > gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0) > do you agree ?" > > As I am unsatisfied most of the time I had to agree :-) > What is a libgimpwidget?, which ones do I need?, where would I get > them?, and if I can get them, what do I do with them? (without being > rude :-) ) Sorry I am a rank beginner here. > > > Any helpfull suggestions would be most gratefully accepted. > > Many thanks in advance, > Take Care > Winton > > > > Have you considered just uninstalling Gimp, downloading Gimp from the web site and installing it yourself? This means stepping out of the world of RPMs but that is not a fatal thing. You can unzip and untar the downloaded file with one command tar zxvf (name of file.) Then follow the instructions that come with.
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