Tutorial: Compile and Install GIMP 2.6.10 in Debian 5.0 Lenny

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    In this tutorial I will show how to compile from source and install in Debian Lenny the latest release of GIMP, the most powerful image manipulation application currently available for Linux.

    First of all, Debian Lenny comes with GIMP 2.4.7 in the repositories, so if you have it installed, you should remove it first:

    apt-get remove --purge gimp
    apt-get autoremove --purge

    Next, install the dependencies needed to compile GIMP 2.6.10:

    apt-get build-dep gimp
    apt-get install libbabl-0.0-0-dev libgegl-0.0-dev

    Next, download the GIMP 2.6.10 source tarball from the GIMP FTP site and then uncompress it:

    tar -xjf gimp-2.6.10.tar.bz2

    Now change the working directory to gimp-2.6.10 and issue these commands:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

    GIMP 2.6.10 in Debian Lenny

    The last one as root. If you want to install GIMP as a normal user, specify a different prefix to the configure script:

    ./configure --prefix=/home/USER/usr
    make
    make install

    There is no need to be root when issuing make install this time.    Source URL: http://ashesgarrett.blogspot.com/2010/09/tutorial-compile-and-install-gimp-2610.html
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