In the process of installing GIMP 2.0 now, I should’ve known better, it won’t be as easy as installing the rpm package provided, some requirements need to be met first.
1. GTK 2.2 or higher is needed, and I am d/l-ing the 2.6, it also needs Glib, ATK and Pango. So there you go, just need GTK but ended up needing three more packages to be installed. nAs expected spent few hours trying to figure out why ATK and Pango can’t find Glib that I have installed. It has to do with setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the right “pkgconfig” directory, I think it should be under /usr/local/lib/glib2.0/pkgconfig if you install it by default, however the link here shows me a clearer way doing it. It’s 23.29, GTK is still compiling.. sigh, RPM, we need RPM!!!n2. It’s 00.05, finally GIMP is compiling, was having stoopid mistake by wrongly set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH, which resulted in a message similar like this pkg-config -modversion finds glib 2.2.3 but GLIB (2.2.5) installed. I also compile GIMP with options –without lib-tiff and –gimpprint (something like that), since I can’t be bothered to install both packages, I won’t be needing them anyway.
Well, I hope this helps folks, I can’t wait to get my hands on GIMP 2.0 mainly because I want to install fonts that don’t work with earlier GIMP.
Sweet.. It’s now 00.19, GIMP 2.0 fired up smoothly, it’s installed as /usr/local/bin/gimp-1.3. The interface is quite different from 1.2, was trying to type in a text, it’s done differently from the prev version.. Hm there’s an adjustment to make then, but I just look over it quickly, it looks more sturdy and visually better than the prev vers. I am happy now I can sleep in peace.