Re: [Gimp-user] quest about installing multiple versions of GIMP
On Thursday 31 January 2008, alessia wrote: Hi all, I' ve a questo since a long time regarding the possibilty to install and run multiple, and by the way different, versions of Gimp on the same computer. I know that it's possible for some software (for example OpenOffice) but I dont' know about GImp. i'm not an intensive user and so I usually install the new version of Gimp that came with the new version of my distribution( and I change distro version one time a year o more frequently). My quest is Is it strictly binding to unistall the previous version before install the newer one? Thank a lot Alessia It is possible, and almost all GIMP contributors do that, although it is not officially supported. However, it is nto likely you will be able to do that with pre-compiled packages. You will have to download GIMP's source code and follow the instructions there to build it in another prefix (like /opt). However, if you are talking about minor version changes inside a stable branch (like changing from gimp-2.4.2 to gimp-2.4.4), there is no need to have both versions installed - you could install it over your current GIMP (and in this case, you _should_ be able to get a package from your distribution updates). Note that current gimp stable is 2.4 - there should be in a few weeks (or months) some development branch for version 2.5, which you might want to try in this way, while you still hold your 2.4 stable. Regards, js -- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] quest about installing multiple versions of GIMP
alessia wrote: I' ve a questo since a long time regarding the possibilty to install and run multiple, and by the way different, versions of Gimp on the same computer. If you are installing a Windows version just enter a different directory from the default choice when asked for the install directory. If you are in a Linux environment, you *might* be able to installed a pre-compiled package to a different directory if your package management system supports relocation of packages (ie. the --relocate option for RPM based package management). Not sure how well it will work in practice. The only other option is to build from source. Just avoid have GIMP in /usr then another one in /usr/local as this can still result in conflicts between versions. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |What are we going to do today, Borg? Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 |Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: | Try to assimilate the world! #include disclaimer/favourite | -Pinkutus the Borg ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] quest about installing multiple versions of GIMP
Thank you to all who so gentle answer me. I sometimes build from source the software I want to install so I have a little prectice with this kind of things. For some reason It isn't always easy ( expecially where there are many dependacies to solve). But I think the using --prefix=/otherdirectory in the configure step I can safely install two version of gimp. I'd like to have two main version ( not the alpha or intermediate, at least till I 'll be able to help with the debug or so). Thank you Alessia ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
