---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjr...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:14:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version To: Cristian Secară <or...@secarica.ro>, Claus Cyrny <claus.cy...@web.de>
its not the Gimp team's job to package things. If you let Ubuntu do it for you, then you have to accept the limitations that come with that. There are instructions on the web for getting gimp 2.6 to run on 8.04 without compiling it yourself, but you have to uninstall and reinstall vast swaths of the desktop gui. Why not just upgrade to 8.10? Gimp is what motivated me to do that, and it was pretty darn painless. Btw, the Ubuntu releases are Year.Month, so there can't be an 8.20. The next release will be a 9.something. On 1/16/09, Cristian Secară <or...@secarica.ro> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:08:04 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > >> I tried this myself, but found it very difficult. IMHO, the easiest >> way would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. Then you have all the latest >> libraries installed. > > And then when GIMP goes to 2.7+ will have to upgrade also the OS to > Ubuntu 8.20+/whatever ? > > Cristi > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
