Quick notes for compiling GIMP 2.5.0 on Ubuntu 7.10

GIMP 2.5.0 has been released and you are curious what's new? You can compile it yourself and try it out.

But please note: GIMP 2.5.0 is a development version, that means it should only be used for testing and not for production use. Don't make useless bug reports to the developers.

Basic procedure:

1) Install the necessary packages to compile programs. Make sure gcc, g++, ruby (for the docs), and the development versions of some basic libraries are installed. If one of the "configure" processes below fails because it needs a certain library, install it. For instance, if configure tells you "Can't find xxx", install "libxxx-dev".

2) Download these tarballs from the respective file servers (take the most recent version): BABL, GLib, GEGL, Gtk+, GIMP
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.16/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.12/

3) Extract BABL, "./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5", "make", "sudo make install"

4) Extract GLib, "./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5", "make", "sudo make install"

5) Make binaries, includes, libraries in /opt/gimp-2.5 available for use:
export PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/lib/pkgconfig

6) Extract GEGL, "./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5", "make", "sudo make install"

7) Extract Gtk+, "./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5", "make", "sudo make install"

8) Extract GIMP, "configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5", "make", "sudo make install"

9) Enjoy with "/opt/gimp-2.5/bin/gimp-2.5"