Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-16 Thread Aliet Exposito
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 12:56 +0200, erroneus wrote: I also have poppler-glib 0.12.4 which comes with my distro. However, the compiler doesn't see it. It's not the show-stopper that the SVG support was. You need the development packages, those two: libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 04:14 +0200, erroneus wrote: You need to build things in the selected build directory, babl, gegl and gimp If glib and gtk versions are too low, you need to build those and their dependancies in the selected directory. DO NOT BUILD IN /usr or /usr/local Just a note

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 04:14 +0200, erroneus wrote: You need to build things in the selected build directory, babl, gegl and gimp If glib and gtk versions are too low, you need to build those and their dependancies in the selected directory. DO NOT BUILD IN /usr or /usr/local Just a note

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-15 Thread Owen
The previous two threads didn't go to the list, clicked 'Reply' instead 'Reply to All' so they went directly to your mail, my mistake... :P Try configuring 'librsvg' without 'gobject-introspection': ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8/ --enable-introspection=no And yes, I tried compiling

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hello erroneus, On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:02:29 +0200 erroneus for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I've been looking all over but there are just no CentOS (or RHEL for that matter) packages for the latest version of GiMP. Compiling from source doesn't even seem to be a good option either as it looks

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hello gerard82, On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:59:22 +0200 gerard82 for...@gimpusers.com wrote: This is no way to build an application! Applications and OSes should never be tied so closely together. I like GiMP 2.8 for Windows a lot and would prefer to run it under CentOS as that is my

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, erroneus wrote: But it has revealed what I believe are philisophical flaws in GiMP and/or GNOME which I think should be resolved. You mean that GIMP developers sometimes bump dependencies? We don't do it, because we like annoying people. We do it, because

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Owen
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, erroneus wrote: I want to be able to run my older version of GNOME with a newer version of GiMP. How can I resolve this? If the answer is compiling from source, can I get some hints as to what whole sets of source I need to get and how to go about

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Partha Bagchi
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM, erroneus for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I suggest you read these instructions (ignore the ubuntu bias); http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu If that's a whole new world, you will find it an interesting learning curve It's not a whole new

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-14 Thread Owen
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu Just so you know... I just removed the BABL and GEGL libraries from my system and attempted to build exactly as the instructions say I should... well, it says: checking for GLIB - version = 2.28.0... no *** Could not run GLIB

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:02 AM, erroneus wrote: Why would developers choose to shut us out like this? We don't do any Linux packaging. We encourage you to become the first team member who does it. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-13 Thread Owen
I've been looking all over but there are just no CentOS (or RHEL for that matter) packages for the latest version of GiMP. Compiling from source doesn't even seem to be a good option either as it looks as if it will break the whole OS the way things are set up. This is no way to build an