Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

chiron · Last edited by chiron on Tue 25 Sep 2012, 03:09; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I would really like to have the new graphic tablet functionality of the GIMP 2.8. I have it running with some tricks on my laptop (fd64,too), but on my desktop machine it's either gimp 2.8 works (well, starts, at least) and everything else is borked, or gimp 2.8 doesn't even start. Both comps are running fd64, both with ati graphicsdriver, the laptop with an intel core2 duo, the desktop with an AMD X2, pretty much the same software. I actually know, that the 'bad' library is libgdk-pixbuf, where the newer version obviously crashes ROX-Filer. But on the desktop machine there are more issues, error message is in the line of 'undefined symbol'.

So if someone can put together a gimp 2.8 that is not as picky, it would be much appreciated.

WillM · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 99 Location: Oakland, California

Hi chiron,

This is an sfs for gimp-2.8.2, and updated libraries.

This packages includes;
atk-2.4.0
babl-0.1.10
cairo-1.12.2
gdk-pixbuff-2.26.1
gegl-0.2.0
gimp-2.8.2
glib-2-32-2
libcroco-0.6.5
librsvg-2.36.1
libwmf-0.2.8.4
pango-1.3.0

If you are using lxpanel-0.5.9, it has a problem with refreshing the desktop menu for some sfs files.
If that is the case delete the file in ~/.cache/menus and restart Xserver. The desktop icon works as it should without doing that.

Updated to version 2.8.4
http://ubuntuone.com/5W5LrmtJOGcliVGNbIuFwp

md5sum;
d74725c32ed57a89bfdd6cac19849085 gimp-2.8.4-x86_64-all_620.sfs

Download for Gimp-2.8.2
http://ubuntuone.com/2UY9BJq1VhfkugCFrfubeq

md5sum;
71b4fd2cc646a29aced7676d3eec2f7f gimp-2.8.2-x86_64-all_600.sfs

chiron · Posted: Mon 24 Sep 2012, 01:05 Post subject:

Thanks, will try it today. From the list it appears it has the same libraries I tried, but as I said, runs on the laptop, fails on the desktop, so maybe I missed one tiny bit Wink

chiron · Posted: Mon 24 Sep 2012, 06:42 Post subject:

OK, so I copied the *.sfs to the desktop and loaded it with the sfs-loader. Gimp worked! Upon restarting the x, all Icons and the backdrop image were gone, and rox-filer is not much use without icons.

I then copied the directories out of the sfs to /opt/gimp28 and wrote a small script:

WillM · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 99 Location: Oakland, California

Glad you got it working. Sorry it wasn't automagic.
I remember having the same problem with gdk-pixbuf once.
After some research, found running the following command restored the icons.

chiron · Posted: Tue 25 Sep 2012, 04:03 Post subject:

geo909 · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 36 Location: Crete, Greece

Sorry if this is a naive question, but would that work with lucid?

geo909 · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 36 Location: Crete, Greece

Ah, just saw the '64' on the package.. I guess it won't work with lucid..

I haven't seen gimp 2.8 around for lucid and I was really hoping that
I could get it. Is this sfs really we should expect sooner or later, you
think?