The PPA didn’t work for me, so I tried to install the hard way and ran into what I absolutely HATE about Linux — DEPENDENCY HELL.

The gegl configure program claimed that Glib was not installed, so I downloaded and installed the latest version of it. Now, I get this error message when I run gegl configure:

checking for GLIB – version >= 2.16.1…
*** ‘pkg-config –modversion glib-2.0′ returned 2.23.1, but GLIB (2.22.3)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files

I tried to uninstall the version of Glib that actually was installed that the gegl configure program managed to miss the first time around, but that would require me to uninstall just about everything installed on my system, apparently.

I am very frustrated and angry right now, but that aside, I would really appreciate help to fix this mess.

Thanks.

I must have messed this up somewhere along the line because the ‘single window mode’ option isn’t there…

back to the drawing board i guess…

thanks again

I must have messed this up somewhere along the line because the ‘single window mode’ option isn’t there…

back to the drawing board i guess…

thanks again

cd gimp

and then try

./configure

An alternatively (and really easy) way to install this is just to add the following PPA to

system > Admin > software sources > ‘third party software’ (now called ‘other software’ in karmic)

Click add and paste one of the following

If you use karmic
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu karmic main

if you use jaunty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu jaunty main

Now close and open a terminal. PAste: -
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 405A15CB

Then run an update using
sudo apt-get update

and then if you already have gimp installed this will ‘upgrade’ it. If you don’t then you need to install gimp via the method of your choice

terminal
sudo apt-get insatll gimp

It all goes fine until I get to ./configure – I get:

‘bash: ./configure: No such file or directory’

Clearly doing this all wrong – any help would be really handy!

Thanks.

“E: You must put some ‘source’ URIs in your sources.lsit”

Um what repo do I add?

Thanks for the tip! As it turned out, I was actually installing the correct one all along. I guess it whizzed by so fast in the terminal that I mis-read the source.

Loving single-window GIMP!!! I had no idea how profound an effect this would have on GIMP’s usability for me.

If you choose origin then pick ppa.launchpad.net/main you will find the version that you want

The problem is, what command do I use to install the PPA version of GIMP as opposed to the official version in Ubuntu’s main repo? If I do “sudo apt-get install gimp” it wants to install the official GIMP rather than the PPA version.

Thanks for any light you can shed!

-Mark

https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn

Usually when i post a tutorial using them people get confused…

the “sudo apt-get build-dep gimp” will download and install all the build dependencies for gimp.
“sudo checkinstall” will build a .deb to install (so that it can be uninstalled through add/remove programs)

Any idea where autogen.sh wants to see gegl?

Saluti

Did u get any other errors regarding missing dependencies ?

it’ll be done :P

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