Can somebody guide me through this?
Are you really SURE you want/need GIMP? Why? What are you planning to do with it?
Gimp, and X11, is generally for megageeks who spend most their time in the command-line and want to play with X for some arcane reason. It is not for beginners and OS X's Aqua is much much better.
Sorry if this email sounds kinda vague and confusing. I'm just very confused.
Then reassess if you really want Gimp.
> GIMP happens to be one of the few tools available right now that will > allow full editing of PNG graphics, better than what Photoshop is > capable of doing, which only handles PNG graphics through a plugin. It > isn't just for megageeks,
Yes it is. Anything that requires X11 is pretty much relegated to the megageek class.
> but it IS the only such tool for OS X...and > yes, it IS a pain in the A to get running on Jaguar...especially since > it REQUIRES X11 to function.
As I said, megageeks.
I didn't say "for sure you don't want to run Gimp" but from the initial post it certainly didn't sound like Shannon knew what he was getting himself in for with comments like
>>> I know nothing about UNIX, compling code, etc.
and
>>> I'm not really sure what the packages are or do and what I do with >>> them after their downloaded
I stand by my recommendation to reassess the need for Gimp.
NB: Shannon, if you happen to not be a "he" feel free to transpose the appropriate pronouns above.
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