Sven Neumann writes:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Many thanks!

Unfortunately, even though I'm running a recent version of Linux, Fedora 9, I cannot build this version. Some of the requirements are out of reach for this latest stable version of Fedora.

Has anyone been able to build a gimp 2.6 rpm for Fedora 8 or 9?

-- Johan

Johan Vromans wrote:

Unfortunately, even though I'm running a recent version of Linux, Fedora 9, I cannot build this version. Some of the requirements are out of reach for this latest stable version of Fedora.

What requirements "are out of reach" for Fedora 9?

Kevin Cozens writes:

What requirements "are out of reach" for Fedora 9?

It complains about babl (requires 0.0.22, version provided by Fedora is 0.0.20) and gegl (requires 0.0.18, provided is 0.0.16).

When I tried (forced) to build with the provided versions I ran into compilation errors so I decided to consult the list first before trying to proceed.

-- Johan

Johan Vromans wrote:

Kevin Cozens writes:

What requirements "are out of reach" for Fedora 9?

It complains about babl (requires 0.0.22, version provided by Fedora is 0.0.20) and gegl (requires 0.0.18, provided is 0.0.16).

When I tried (forced) to build with the provided versions I ran into compilation errors so I decided to consult the list first before trying to proceed.

-- Johan

Sorry - I meant gegl.org provides babl and gegl downloads :-(

bgw wrote:

Johan Vromans wrote:

Kevin Cozens writes:

What requirements "are out of reach" for Fedora 9?

It complains about babl (requires 0.0.22, version provided by Fedora is 0.0.20) and gegl (requires 0.0.18, provided is 0.0.16).

When I tried (forced) to build with the provided versions I ran into compilation errors so I decided to consult the list first before trying to proceed.

-- Johan

bgw writes:

the announcement probably should have noted the dependency; Fedora 9 hasn't yet caught up with all the changes to the gimp dependencies.

I don't think F9 is the only distro suffering...

The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl.

-- Johan

Johan Vromans writes:

The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl.

Next bummer is GLIB.
Where will it end...

-- Johan

Johan Vromans wrote:

bgw writes:

the announcement probably should have noted the dependency; Fedora 9 hasn't yet caught up with all the changes to the gimp dependencies.

I don't think F9 is the only distro suffering...

The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl.

No problem in Debian Sid: the source distribution compiles without any problem.

On Saturday 04 October 2008, Johan Vromans wrote:

I don't think F9 is the only distro suffering...

The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl.

"Very new" is relative, they are from June. And without GIMP, would any distribution ever add those libs?

Daniel

Okay, mission completed.

For a limited time the necessary Fedora RPMs can be found here:

http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/babl-0.0.22-1jv.fc8.src.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/babl-devel-0.0.22-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/babl-0.0.22-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/babl-debuginfo-0.0.22-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gegl-0.0.18-1jv.fc8.src.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gegl-devel-0.0.18-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gegl-0.0.18-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gegl-debuginfo-0.0.18-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/glib2-2.18.1-1jv.fc8.src.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/glib2-2.18.1-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/glib2-devel-2.18.1-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/glib2-static-2.18.1-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/glib2-debuginfo-2.18.1-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gimp-2.6.0-1jv.fc8.src.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gimp-2.6.0-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gimp-libs-2.6.0-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gimp-devel-2.6.0-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/gimp-debuginfo-2.6.0-1jv.fc8.i386.rpm

Feel free to copy these to the download area. These RPMs are for Fedora 8, but should work on Fedora 9 as well. Or at least the SRPMs should be rebuildable on F9.

Thanks all for the support and the nice 2.6 GIMP!

-- Johan

Thanks a bunch, Johan !!

Johan Vromans wrote:

Okay, mission completed.

< snip >

-- Johan

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 02:56:41 pm Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

If you want to compile GIMP 2.6 yourself, you can grab the tarball from ftp.gimp.org or one of its mirrors:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Please note that there was a glitch in the 2.6.0 tarball on the FTP server that was corrected after a few hours. If in doubt, you can use the following information to check that you have the fixed tarball:

filename: gimp-2.6.0.tar.bz2 size: 15897821 bytes
MD5 sum: e5ac955fee8b376d431e4693027d7640

I note in the explanation that there is no mention of using CMYK color model, beyond what is already available in the preview feature. Is manipulation in the CMYK model in the works for some time in the future? Does the move to GEGL smooth the path to CMYK in some way?

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 02:56:41 pm Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image

Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best

described in the release notes on http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

I note in the explanation that there is no mention of using CMYK

color

model, beyond what is already available in the preview feature. Is

manipulation in the CMYK model in the works for some time in the future? Does the move to GEGL smooth the path to CMYK in some way?

Have you tried this with 2.6?

http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml

Owen

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 02:56:41 pm Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image

Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best

described in the release notes on http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

I note in the explanation that there is no mention of using CMYK

color

model, beyond what is already available in the preview feature. Is

manipulation in the CMYK model in the works for some time in the future? Does the move to GEGL smooth the path to CMYK in some way?

Have you tried this with 2.6?

http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml

To answer my own question, I downloaded the plug-in from

http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html

and it seems to function with 2.6 ok

Owen

Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

Excellent work! Thank you for your tireless effort over the years on this absolutely beautiful and solid piece of software. It is a joy to use and always exciting to witness the further maturation of this most excellent code base.

Forever thankful, Eric P.

Eric P wrote:

Sven Neumann wrote:

Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in the release notes on

Excellent work! Thank you for your tireless effort over the years on this absolutely beautiful and solid piece of software. It is a joy to use and always exciting to witness the further maturation of this most excellent code base.

Forever thankful, Eric P.

I do feel 100% percent like Eric. I want to thank all the develpers and team working in this wonderful software. Not only I like the gimp, but also it's a symbol of what the whole open source movement means to me.

Me too, forever thankful :-)

Jaime