Carol Spears wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > >>>Von: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:50:36PM -0500, Eric P wrote: >> >>>>I can't remember if I asked this before or not, but does anybody make >>>>any 2.3.x packages for deb? >> >>>it is easy to build your own on debian. i build mine in /usr/local >>>though so, it is not the same as getting it from them. >> >>If I'm not mistkane, it is not advised to install into any /usr prefix - the >>release notes mention /opt, and I've chosen a directory in my $HOME. >> > > it is the configure default. > > >>For simply testing the 2.3 releases, I wouldn't create a Debian package, >>just install it where it can do no harm to your system. >> > > you can even have both, although they share the */2.0/* directory name. > better to make sure before you try to install your own that you do not > have debians libgimp-dev. let the distribution only have lib-gimp > binaries. > > carol >
Awesome. Thanks for the tips from both of you. Cool splash photo. Michael, I took your tip and stuck it in ~/.gimp You're absolutely right. Why make a package when I'll just keep compiling devel releases for a while? Eric P _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
