Today, having had a bit of time I wanted to compile Gimp 2.7, to check the news, one in all the famous single-window mode, and check if it was done a little photoshop style of order, as promised. Gimp 2.7 does not is nothing but the testing version of the future Gimp 2.8. Title I as I compiled on Debian Squeeze, then fill to make sure you have everything there is a need including:

git-core libtool autoconf automake intltool

still occur wanting more.

We start with determining the variables, since we will install in / opt, so we can use both versions of Gimp.

export PATH = $ PATH: / opt/gimp-2.7/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH = / opt/gimp-2.7/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH = / opt/gimp-2.7/lib

then ensure that we can compile Gimp:

sudo apt-get build-dep gimp

At this point we have to download and complete graphics library and Babl GEGL.

Babl:

git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/babl
cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j4
sudo make install -j4

GEGL:

git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j4
sudo make install -j4

Now we download and compile Gimp:

GIMP:

git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gimp
cd gimp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j4
sudo make install -j4

at this point if everything went well we are with Gimp 2.7 installed in / opt and we can start it with:

/opt/gimp-2.7/bin/gimp-2.7

The first assessment is certainly good, but way to go any more so. I say this without wishing to make comparisons between Gimp and Photoshop, which would be like making a comparison between Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher.

Out of curiosity I tried to install Gimp 2.6.6 on Debian Lenny, where is the version that I run 2.4.7.I steps

are simple. Once you have checked that you have to compile and that is the essential build-essential, and a pair of dependencies

necessary:

# Apt-get install libgegl-0.0-dev

do is download the sources from here and compile it:

gimp-2.6.6.tar.bz2 tar-xjf

cd gimp-2.6.6

apt-get build-dep gimp

. / configure

make

# Make install

instead of make install would be better to use checkinstall, clearly after you install it. If once started would

present an error screen like the one below, is resolved by removing gimp-data.

For those who use Gimp quite often, I would like GIMP FX Foundry, a set of scripts to extend their

functionality. That's a lot and can be downloaded from here. After downloading the pack, unpack and copy all in

/ home / user / .gimp_versione / scripts .. That is it.

In this period I had some free time, and I have made up his mind to change header to my blog. As often happens, many things we s' to commit only when you actually need. I state that not one of the trade (and see), but like all things that really excite me, in the end I can almost always find a way. When I started to create my fixed points: the penguin, and something that represents its habitat, such as ice, wind, the colors or something similar. I used Gimp to create it, of course, everything is really easy, since even a little like me, he succeeded.

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