Gimp 2.6.7 install

[greenx]

Hi to all. Has anyone installed Gimp 2.6.7 on Centos 5.3 as yet?

[pschaff]

Welcome to the CentOS fora. The current CentOS release has gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5 and none of the common 3rd party repos has a later version.

Please read:
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=47]Required reading[/url]
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14408&forum=47]Installing Software[/url]
[url=http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-472ce8446ebcfc82ca1800f775ba0e629ac835c7]FAQ[/url]

If you [i]need[/i] a later version consider running Fedora, either in a [url=http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-fb1ff7e71fb5f2f511cda8c68cb6ba5f6e8decae]virtual machine[/url] or on real iron - multi-boot or as an alternative to CentOS.

[adebened]

Hi All,

If it's any help, I've been able to run 2.4.7, available from
[url=http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12662352/com/gimp-2.4.7-3.el5.i386.rpm.html]here[/url].

You'll also need the compatible [url=http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12662354/com/gimp-libs-2.4.7-3.el5.i386.rpm.html]gimp-libs[/url].

It seems to work fine, but I seem to recall that I needed to install a 2.4 version of gimp-help to get the help manual to work (not required for the gimp program, just required if you use the help manual feature, otherwise you can skip it.) I think you can rebuild this [url=http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/search/gimp-help-2.4.0-1.fc7.src.rpm]src.rpm[/url] (I have to admit I was lazy and just installed the fc7 rpm :-? , but a local rebuild is a better idea). I know this doesn't help with your question but maybe the 2.4 has the feature you're looking for that's absent in 2.2.
Cheers,

[pschaff]

Can you say what's better in that version than the CentOS version? Perhaps a request to have it hosted by a 3rd party repo (or maybe even CentOSplus) is in order if it is a substantial improvement.

[adebened]

[quote]
pschaff wrote:
Can you say what's better in that version than the CentOS version? Perhaps a request to have it hosted by a 3rd party repo (or maybe even CentOSplus) is in order if it is a substantial improvement.[/quote]

Good question. To be honest I'm not a GIMP super-user so for the things I use GIMP for, I think it is about the same. Generally I don't replace CentOS official packages but my wife was using GIMP a lot so, when I ran across an EL/CentOS binary of a newer version, I thought I'd install it, since GIMP is not a system critical package. It has worked great so far and it looks a little better than v2.2 but I don't know how much of an improvement it is on the utility front. Maybe someone else has used it more extensively and can comment?
Cheers,

[adebened]

P.S. Some info on the improvements in v2.4 can be found [url=http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html]here[/url].
Cheers,

[pschaff]

So, back to [b]greenx[/b] - what about 2.6.7 is a gotta' have?

[pjwelsh]

Looks like he may have started with the Gimp peeps first:
http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/11984-Gimp-2-6-7-install-on-Centos-5-3.html
This seems to be from someone who is very close to the newest version:
http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/03/compiling-gimp-265-on-centos-5.html

[pschaff]

[quote]
pjwelsh wrote:
Looks like he may have started with the Gimp peeps first:
http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/11984-Gimp-2-6-7-install-on-Centos-5-3.html
[/quote]
so, [b]greenx[/b] here, [b]redx[/b] there, I'm sure there's a [b]bluex[/b] somewhere so the primaries are all covered. :-D

[quote]
This seems to be from someone who is very close to the newest version:
http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/03/compiling-gimp-265-on-centos-5.html[/quote]

Looks like [b]Yan Li[/b] needs to read http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM to learn about the "--nomd5" flag for newer Fedora SRPMS.

Thanks for the detective work.