[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Henry W. Peters
Hi, Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP is 2.6.1. Some questions I have (for example) are: Do I /really/ have to uninstall the old version...? Any dependency issues (conflicts, etc.) ?

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Henry W. Peters hwpet...@jamadots.com wrote: Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP is 2.6.1. Some questions I have (for example) are: Do I /really/ have to

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 12.05.2013 19:36, Henry W. Peters wrote: Thanks much for any pointers. Please don't hijack threads - your mail will appear two levels deep in the thread about changing the PDF file associations for some users. If you want to start a new topic, please compose a new message to the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Dominik Tabisz
Hi Some time ago i tried both compiling Gimp 2.8 on Squeeze, and installing Debian Testing ... to see what's wrong with my attempt to compile Gimp 2.8. To make long thing short - problems with compilation are caused by dependencies of Gimp 2.8 dependencies. At some moment You end up with

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Henry W. Peters
Thanks all for your replies ON THIS (as far as I know) NEW THREAD ( Michael, I am a subscriber). It sounds like building 2.8 on Debian Squeeze is a (too) shaky proposition... as I do use it with some regularity, I should probably wait until the Debian packager programmers resolve some of the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Henry W. Peters hwpet...@jamadots.com [05-12-13 15:48]: Thanks all for your replies ON THIS (as far as I know) NEW THREAD ( Michael, I am a subscriber). It sounds like building 2.8 on Debian Squeeze is a (too) shaky proposition... as I do use it with some regularity, I should probably wait

[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread scl
This topic accidently started as reply to '[Gimp-user] PDF' and likes to be continued here. Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:36:10 -0400 From: Henry W. Peters Hi, Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Owen
This topic accidently started as reply to '[Gimp-user] PDF' and likes to be continued here. Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:36:10 -0400 From: Henry W. Peters Hi, Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
tl;dr - see http://azul.m.iguel.net/Blog/?entrada=73 On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 09:06 +1000, Owen wrote: From: Henry W. Peters Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP is 2.6.1. You can