I finally got around to update my Gimp installation. I deleted Gimp 1.2 and installed Gimp 2.2.6, gimpprint, and gimp-help. libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, libXpm and libgtkhtml are also installed.

However... 1) I cannot open/save any format other than '.xcf'. The message in the error console is 'Unknown file type' for any .gif, .png, .jpg, .xpm image I attempt to open or save with that extension.

2) There is no 'file > print' menu.

3) The help-browser module still doesn't get built

Thanks for any help.

michael chang wrote:

An Operating System and/or Distribution and install method would be nice...

Sorry about that...

env: Solaris9-sparc

Are you sure you installed libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev, libXpm-dev, and libgtk-html-dev, assuming you compiled the Gimp from source [on Linux Distributions]?

The following libs are installed...

/usr/local/lib: libjpeg.so.62.0.0, libpng.so.3.1.2.8, libtiff.so.3.7.2, libgimpprint.so.1.1.3
/usr/lib: libXpm.so.4.11
/opt/sfw/lib: libgtkhtml-2.so.0.0.0

Are you sure ./configure found those libraries (check it's output)?

The 'configure' script "seemed" to find them. (see attachment: config.txt)

Just a couple of thoughts.

On 6/27/05, McAfee wrote:

and installed Gimp 2.2.6, gimpprint, and gimp-help. libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, libXpm and libgtkhtml are also installed.

However... 1) I cannot open/save any format other than '.xcf'. The message in the 2) There is no 'file > print' menu.
3) The help-browser module still doesn't get built

This looks seriously like the GIMP can't find anything -- IIRC, the first requires graphics libraries (and if you built from source, the devel packages/source for them), the second would probably need gimp-print or something or other, and the last requires a web browser (e.g. mozilla) that the help-browser can find.

You do have GTK+ installed and upgraded also to meet the upgraded GIMP, right?

Yes, GTK+-2.6.4

Just my two cents.

I also noted that none of the filters seem to get built either! Sheesh!

Thanks for any help.

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I tried rebuilding Gimp 2.2.6. Closer inspection of the 'gmake' output revealed the following.
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Making all in plug-ins
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/gimp/gimp-2.2.6/plug-ins' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/gimp/gimp-2.2.6/plug-ins' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gimp/gimp-2.2.6/plug-ins' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gimp/gimp-2.2.6/plug-ins' ...

The plugins don't seem to get built! The 'configure' process seemed to locate the necessary libs (libpng, libtiff, libxpm, libgimpprint etc.) so why are the plugins not getting built?

I'd tweak the makefile myself but I'm not sure where.

Thanks for any help,

Graeme

Env: Solaris9-sparc