On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 AM, <zhangwe...@realss.com> wrote: > Sven Neumann schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +0000, Chris Mohler wrote: >> >> >>>> GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason >>>> why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a >>>> more reasonable Linux distribution? >>>> >>> Yes, but even Ubuntu is still shipping 2.6.1 with their latest stable >>> version (8.10) and shipping 2.4.x with the long-term-support version >>> (8.04). >>> >> >> They have 2.6.3 in intrepid-backports, so a user of the latest stable >> version should have that at least. 2.6.3 is already much more recent >> than 2.6.1 and has lots of bug-fixes. But yeah, Ubuntu should do their >> users a favor and provide more recent bug-fix releases. >> >> > Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade > to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do > it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 (sheeee?? > an unstable version?). > > If Ubuntu has 2.6 without a system-upgrade, I'd be glad to try. I don't > want to fight the hassle of system-upgrade in recent months. Usually a > system-upgrade means I need to get used to something a bit different, I > prefer trying that in less heavy-working days >
When I was running Ubuntu 8.04, I compiled GIMP 2.6 and installed into /opt - this seemed the easiest solution for me. however, you may be able to get .deb files from getdeb, as outlined here: http://angpilipinogimp.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/install-gimp-26-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ Or, you could browse their repo and download them manually and install with dpkg... Some months ago, I upgraded to 8.10 - but I understand your hesitation: the upgrade worked pretty well, but a few things needed to be reconfigured. Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
