Puzzle about my version of gimp

I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I
brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up
claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from
which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7. The explanation might be
that the help package is 2-2.4.1. I can't figure out any way to tell
from the running program which version it is.

On the other hand I recently got a laptop runing Ubuntu 8.04. When
start gimp on it, 'about' tells me I have gimp 2.4.5, which I believe.

Any comments or explanations?

Leonard Evens wrote:
> I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I
> brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up
> claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from
> which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7.

Help -> About is much more reliable than the package name.

To find out for sure you can look in the NEWS file for 2.4 and try to
reproduce bugs that only existed in one of the versions. Depending on
what bugs you can reproduce, you can derive what version you have.

Another way would be to install the source package of the gimp program
package and look in the configure.in file, which has the version at the top.

- Martin

Martin Nordholts writes:
> Leonard Evens wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I
> > brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up
> > claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from
> > which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7.
>
> Help -> About is much more reliable than the package name.

Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what
Help->About tells you.

...Akkana

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:09 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:

> Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what
> Help->About tells you.

Both display the same compiled-in version string. So what exactly is the
purpose of comparing these?


Sven

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 13:33 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:09 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:
>
> > Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what
> > Help->About tells you.
>
> Both display the same compiled-in version string. So what exactly is the
> purpose of comparing these?

Sometimes things work in mysterious ways. In this case, the suggestion
induced me to use command mode. Immediately after `gimp --version'
returned 2.4.1, I tried `which gimp', and that led me to the solution of
the problem.

Thanks again for telling us about the code. I've tried on numerous
occasions to figure out just what gimp was doing by examining the
source, but I've seldom been successful.

And I apologize again for not having figure out the problem myself
without bothering so many helpful people.

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> Sven
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