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Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions adrian15 28 May 18:44
  Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions Sven Neumann 28 May 22:19
  Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions Carol Spears 01 Jun 21:44
adrian15
2003-05-28 18:44:18 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions

Hello I am thinking about a new Gnu/Win/Linux distribution called Promise Linux (Details in:
httphttp://hispascal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki-1.3.3/index.php/Adrian15HaltPromiLinuxEN)

1)One of my questions is if there would be any way of installing TheGimp in both Windows and Linux without having to copy the compiled libraries twice in the cdrom.

For installing a program you usually need an installer (which may be a linux one or a windows one) and the libraries associated to the program. Are these libraries valid in both Windows and Linux? So that I can save space on my cdrom.

2) I want to automatize TheGimp Windows installation, such as editing a config file or passing arguments to its installer. Could you please explain me it a little bit or give some manual url or whatever?

3) Is there any way of installing TheGimp in Windows but running a Linux installer?... Or at least using wine or whatever. I mean not running an exe file but running a Linux script or whatsoever.

4)In my project Promise Linux one of the objectives is that Windows

TheGimp Configuration and Linux TheGimp Configuration should be the same.

The idea is one partition for windows, another for linux and another one (fat32) for shared configuration. So that I install TheGimp in Windows and I install TheGimp in Linux and I want both of them to share its configuration.

4.1)The question is: Does TheGimp store its configuration in

4.1.a) a single file? 4.1.b) a single folder?

4.2) Do I have to edit some TheGimp files (both in Linux and windows) in order to let it know where the new configuration file/folder is located.

(Of course I am supposing using the same TheGimp version in both Windows and Linux)

Thank your your patience and your time. Thank you.

adrian15.

Sven Neumann
2003-05-28 22:19:57 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions

Hi,

adrian15 writes:

Hello I am thinking about a new Gnu/Win/Linux distribution called Promise Linux (Details in:
httphttp://hispascal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki-1.3.3/index.php/Adrian15HaltPromiLinuxEN)

1)One of my questions is if there would be any way of installing TheGimp in both Windows and Linux without having to copy the compiled libraries twice in the cdrom.

For installing a program you usually need an installer (which may be a linux one or a windows one) and the libraries associated to the program. Are these libraries valid in both Windows and Linux? So that I can save space on my cdrom.

No, you can't share any executables between the two operating system. At least not with reasonable effort. All you can share between GIMP for Unix and GIMP for Windows is what is installed in the $prefix/share directory.

2) I want to automatize TheGimp Windows installation, such as editing a config file or passing arguments to its installer. Could you please explain me it a little bit or give some manual url or whatever?

The windows installer is not part of The GIMP. People who are packaging GIMP for Windows seem to be using some flavour of general installer.

4.1)The question is: Does TheGimp store its configuration in

4.1.a) a single file? 4.1.b) a single folder?

4.2) Do I have to edit some TheGimp files (both in Linux and windows) in order to let it know where the new configuration file/folder is located.

Why don't you just take a look at a GIMP installation?

Sven

Carol Spears
2003-06-01 21:44:40 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Promise Linux and TheGimp various questions

On 2003-05-28 at 1844.18 +0200, adrian15 typed this:

Hello I am thinking about a new Gnu/Win/Linux distribution called Promise Linux (Details in:
httphttp://hispascal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki-1.3.3/index.php/Adrian15HaltPromiLinuxEN)

1)One of my questions is if there would be any way of installing TheGimp in both Windows and Linux without having to copy the compiled libraries twice in the cdrom.

For installing a program you usually need an installer (which may be a linux one or a windows one) and the libraries associated to the program. Are these libraries valid in both Windows and Linux? So that I can save space on my cdrom.

you can run wine on linux and run thewingimp executable from there.

carol