Eckhard M. Jäger

Gimp 2.6.3 Update

Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:26:47 PM

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Gimp 2.6.3 is out now and includes again several bugfixes and translation updates. You can grab a Deb package at Getdeb.net.

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Anonymous # Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:09:07 AM

ODDie writes: Hi Eckhard. Did you managed to install Gimp 2.6.3 on Ubuntu Hardy? I have some dependencies problems (libgtk2, libpango and few others). Altough v.2.6.2 installs just fine.

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:25:13 AM

@ODDie
Hi, nope i'm staying on 2.6.0 at the moment. Make sure you downloaded packages for Hardy. You can't install Ibex packages.

Anonymous # Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:58:14 PM

Steffen Mutter writes: Sorry Eckard, but that's nonsens. Ever heared of GetDeb? Have a look at this, folks: http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gimp go to the Ubuntu version and architecture you are using... get the packages listended there and drop them to a folder you may name 'whatever_you_want' go to the folder 'whatever_you_want' and install them in this order: dpkg -i libbabl*.deb dpkg -i libgegl*.deb dpkg -i libgimp*.deb dpkg -i gimp-data*.deb dpkg -i gimp_*.deb Should work. It did on all my Ubuntu machines except the Ubuntu-Studio one, because of this: gimp kollidiert mit gimp-gnomevfs (<< 2.6.0) But you can try this: dpkg -i --force-all gimp_*.deb only if you are brave enough ;-) Greetings, SMut

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:31:37 PM

Hello Steffen,
as you red in my article i know about getdeb.net. And today they released there a fresh nice, new Gimp 2.6.6 package for Hardy too. But there is a dependency problem in the old Gimp 2.6.0 package of Getdeb.net. If you try to update Gimp it didn't work because gimp-python is now no extra package anymore. And so it can't be updated easy.

What i did today is download all new Gimp 2.6.6 packages from Getdeb.net in one folder and opened the location in a shell. There i started:

sudo dpkg --force-breaks --force-overwrite --ignore-depends=gimp-python -i *

To updatze Gimp and ignore gimp-python. After that i removed gimp-python in Synaptic without any depedency problem. Now i'm up-to-date again - Yeah!

Anonymous # Friday, March 20, 2009 7:20:43 AM

Steffen Mutter writes: Hi area42! I didn't encounter problems with gimp-python, whilst you keep installing the packages the way I mentioned above. If you encounter problems a dpkg -i --force-all <packagename_with_problems>*.deb forces to install it ignoring dependency problems. By the way I prefer to get root this way: sudo bash to get rid of typing sudo so often. Nice to get a feedback from you, GIMP!2.6.x is worth fiddling around with the package managing... Some other GUMPusers prefer to include getdeb in /etc/apt/sources.list which is - in my opinion - not a good idea, because it breaks the upgrading process. I will keep running the LTS version of Ubuntu until a new LTS version is available, because all stuff I need is available and (which is very important for me) my Wacom intuos works perfectly, Intrepid xorg.conf seems to be a bit, hm, broken. HTH SMut

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Friday, March 20, 2009 8:09:47 AM

True, i wouldn't ad GetDeb.net source list either. I will wait up to May when Jaunty is mostly stable and then i will switch to 9.04 because it offer at all much mure speed: Boot, Gnome 2.26 and Ext4.