On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Peter Scott wrote:

> Dear list:
>
> Here's my problem and a couple of questions:
>
> I would very much like to update gimp from the latest
> available from your repo (gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5.x86_64) to at
> least version 2.4.   (The current newest version is 2.6.6.).
>
> However even version 2.4 requires newer versions of gtk+ and
> glib than are available for SL 5.0, and each of those has
> long coattails of dependencies, so I am loathe to remove my
> current gtk+ and glib (using, say, yum) because that would
> break all kinds of useful stuff.
>
> So my first question is: what is my best strategy to proceed?
>
> My second question is: do later versions of SL (5.1, 5.2, 5.3)
> come with a later version of gimp?  (If so, my best strategy
> might be to upgrade SL.  I like SL---so reliable.)

No. SL5.3 still has gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5

> I have no trouble building packages from the source.

I've never looked at compiling Gimp but I'd consider starting from
one of the Fedora src rpms rather than a release tarball, since 
application developers often provide a generic RedHat/Fedora/SuSE
spec file.
Fedora 9 was released with gimp-2.4.5-1.fc9.src.rpm and has a 
gimp-2.6.6-1.fc9.src.rpm update,
Fedora 10 has update gimp-2.6.6-1.fc10.src.rpm

In general I'd recommend 5.3, but do read the instructions.
Some of my machines have got stuck when I forgot that you do
need to update in 3 stages because of the changes in glibc and yum.

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