Re: Where Is "Add Glow" and "Center Layer" in Gimp 2.x?

On 2005-11-06, MykeC <mykecNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Spamless wrote:
>
>> I added the stuff I needed, ripped out the RPM that RH had provided,
>> got the source and installed from that tarball. It may be that that
>> distributed version is not fully enabled.
>
> So are you saying that if I went for the tarball I'd more than likely
> have back the features on which I depend? Or would you suggest
> upgrading from 2.2.8 to 2.2.9 via RPM first?

I would suggest the 2.2.9 tarball. If you have the necessary files
that should give you a fully enabled gimp. If it compiles, I would
then rip out the 2.2.8 RPM and then do the "make install".

If you add items you need. If your distribution does not have perl PDL
you would have to install that first. Try a

locate PDL

and see if you see a lot of "PDL/Graphics/" stuff in your perl directories.

If you don't have that, you can get it from CPAN.
Then you can configure and compile gimp for actions which depend on that
perl module.

See if you have a perl-PDL rpm installed (well, your system may not use RPM
- all I know is RH/Fedora and tarballs) (e.g. "rpm -q perl-PDL").

If you get the tarball, when configuring and compiling, watch to see what
messages you get and what problems you have (version 2.2.9 needs a bit of
a tweak in the svg.c source to work with slightly older versions of the
rsvg libraries, for SVG support - I posted a note about that last week
in comp.graphics.apps.gimp). Also check "./configure --help" (e.g. one
can simply disable svg support if one has problems and does not care
about it - other extra options may require extra libraries, such as wmf
support to be able to use Windows format wmf clipart - some systems may
not support non-open formats such as wmf or mp3 and one has to do a bit
of extra work to get that support - I know that for Fedora and MP3 but
don't know about wmf, for I have been installing GIMP from source code
since version 1.1 on a TurboLinux Workstation version 6)

> Are there some really special differences between 2.2.8 and 2.2.9?

The gimp page indicates that 2.2.9 is a bug fix. No extra features.
.

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