Hi all,

Noo-B here. I've been using Unix and Linux at work for years but only as a user and not having to take care of my own home computer. I have Mandrake 10 Official installed, which includes GIMP 1.2. Well, I want to upgrade to 2.0. Here is what I did and here are the results.

1. Dependencies include pkg config. I downloaded it and then double-clicked on it to open the file. The file opened in a tmp file. I CD'd to that directory and did a ./configure, make, and make install. It seemed to go fine.
2. I did the same with a 'libtiff' file, a jpeg file, an atk file, and a glib file. Where they went after I did the ./configure, make, and make install I'm not sure. However, no error messages when installing them.
3. I tried to install FreeType and got the following error message:

Checking for gimp 2.0 gimpui-2.0 Package gimp-2.0
Was not found in the pkg-config search path
Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'gimp-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. No package 'gimp-2.0' found
Library requirements not met (gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0)

4. I tried installing pango but got more error messages. It said, "Could not run GLIB test program. Failed to compile or link. See file config.log for exact error. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed. GLIB 2.4.0 or better is required."

I downloaded GLIB 2.4.2. Not sure why it's giving me this error. I'm going to try reinstalling it and see if maybe I just got a corrupt install.

5. GTK+ is said to require pkgconfig, TIFF, libpng, and jpeg. I can't figure out what I need to do with libpng. It's not a ./configure type of file. It also says I must have zlib installed first. I did download and install zlib with no trouble but now what?

I would really appreciate your help. I'm a photographer and I have clients waiting on me for products that I need to scan and I'm dead in the water at the moment. Thanks.

Good day!

Mike

When I tried to install glib, I got the following message:

[photoman@localhost sources]$ tar -xvf glib-2.4.2.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Am I not doing this correctly!?

Thanks.

Mike

I spent about three days solid trying to download and compile everything I needed to install gimp 2.0 - and I'm relatively experienced and been using linux since about redhat 2 days (tho I used slack at the time).

And I just couldn't get it all to work, no matter what I did or how many dependent packages I downloaded (and there was a stack). I've heard stories from others that gimp 2.0 isn't quite 'ready' for use - that's their opinion - and they didn't like it much...

And I figure if it was ready it probably would have been included with mdk10 - although I think it may be in the powerpack mdk10 edition...

So I'm waiting a while before trying again :-)

Hi

First of all, you have to use GZIP first to unpack your GLib archive, because it has a .GZ extension. The archive will then become a .TAR
You can also directly use tar with xfvz option, witch will pass archive through bzip automatically before.

Freetype problem : Use locate to find out where GIMP-2.0.pc is located on your computer, and add this path to your "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" (PKG_CONFIG_PATH='aaa/bbb/ccc') before compiling the Fretype package.

It took me 7 days to install GTK+, because I was missing almost all the packages required, and even not specified. But if your system is more recent, i guess you should be more lucky.

be patient

There are GIMP 2 rpms in Mandrake contrib. If you don't have a contrib source setup you can go to Easy Urpmi to configure one. Then you can use the software installer to install it.