[Courses] [gimp] Lesson 0: Welcome! Get Familiar with the GIMP

[Akkana Peck]

Anna Badimo writes:
> Dear Akkana,
> 
> I am a bit behind because I am battling to install GIMP. 
> 
> I have the following directory structure:
> 
> HOME\GIMP\gimp-2.2.0

First question: is this on Windows?  The backslashes made me wonder.

> Within gimp-2.2.0 I have the following subdirectories:
> fontconfig-2.2.0
> gtkmm-2.4.4  
> pkgconfig-0.15.0
> freetype-2.1.9
> libart_lgpl-2.3.17

That looks like a list of other projects, not subdirectories within
gimp.  The gimp source package has a lot more directories than that,
with names such as app, ata, etc, libgimp, libgimpbase.  What you
have may be a collection of dependencies gimp needs, rather than
gimp itself.

Where did you get your gimp 2.2.0 tarball?  I built 2.2.3 yesterday
from a tarball I got by going to gimp.org, clicking on "Downloads",
then clicking on the ftp link: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.2/
gimp-2.2.3.tar.gz is the file I downloaded.

To build gimp you need quite a few other packages; even on my
system, which I thought was pretty up-to-date and had built earlier
versions of gimp, I had to add libpng-dev and a couple other -dev
packages.  Looking through the messages configure spits out can
give clues as to what package you need (usually something-dev or
something-devel) but sometimes it's not obvious and you'll need
to ask.

If you're on Linux, what distro?  Is there no prebuilt gimp package,
or is it an old one and you're trying to update to a newer version?

	...Akkana