image library woes

[jez]

Hi there,

I am trying to install GIMP, but finding it very hard.

I have found that i need just about all the dependancies possible and have installed most of them.

When it comes to the image libraries, i have downloaded and installed the jpeg,png & tiff libraries.

BUT when i do a ./configure on GTK (the last dep before i can try GIMP itself), it complains about not finding any of these image libraries.

Can anyone tell me exactly where the image libraries should be, so that i can check whether they have gone in correctly.

I am using debian 3.0

Thanks.

JEz

 

[thedaver]

Are you saying that 'apt-get gimp' doesn't resolve the issues itself?

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[flugh]

BUT when i do a ./configure on GTK (the last dep before i can try GIMP itself), it complains about not finding any of these image libraries.

Can anyone tell me exactly where the image libraries should be, so that i can check whether they have gone in correctly.

If you are doing a './configure', then it sounds like you are trying to compile Gimp from source. If that's the case, you need the <image library>-devel package too. They are header files that your compiler needs to compile the program.

However, I have to go with thedaver here and point out the humanly-impossible-to-conceive power that is unleashed when invoking the 'apt-get install <package name>' command. It should install the basic gimp package, plus everything gimp requires to run. You'll probably also want to install a few others, like 'gimp-data-extras', 'gimp-manual', etc (not 100% sure about those names, don't have a debian box to check out here at work). Last I tried, there was a seperate 'gimp-ungif' or similar in the non-free tree that you had to install to get .gif support.

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[jez]

Thanks guys,

The message about APT is certainly understood!
I carried on regardless and managed to make a mess of something to do with GTK, basically no fonts were visible atall after rebooting the sytem, so nothing even on the GDM login screen.

SO... I used apt to remove gnome entirely, (it was 2.2 and a colleague told me part of my troubles could be to do with that).

I am now back up and running with KDE and no sources of gimp/gtk lying around.... so now i am going to do gimp with APT.

Thanks for the tips though, one of the best things about debian is APT, so i guess i should get used to that a bit more.


Thanks again,


JEz