Gimp 2.0

SuSE 8.2's GIMP is version 1.2. Version 1.3 is available on one of the SuSE FTP sites. Don't use it! It is a `development' version only and cannot even print! At the time of writing (October/2004), GIMP 2.0 can only be installed via source.

Thomas Klein has written excellent instructions on how to compile GIMP 2.0 on a SuSE 8.2 machine. At least one person has described their experience in German (perhaps Thomas again?).

Here are my additional notes when I compiled 2.0.5...

• Updated gtk2 and gtk2-devel RPMs are available on the SuSE FTP site. On the ftp.gwdg.de site, try pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME2/update_for_8.2/. Look under base for gtk2 (v2.2.4), pango (v1.2.5) gnome-filesystem. Look under development for gtk2-devel and pango-devel.
• A newer version of fontconfig (and fontconfig-devel) can also be found on the SuSE FTP site. On ftp.suse.com, look under pub/people/mfabian/8.2/. fontconfig is also provided by XFree, so the fontconfig RPMs need to be installed with the -force option.
• Thomas is serious when he recommends adding symbolic links of libgmodule, libgobject and libglib from /usr/lib to /opt/gnome/lib.
• I added libgimpprint-devel (libgimpprint was already installed. GIMP 2.0.5 requests that libgimpprint should be version 4.2.6 rather than 4.2.5, but unfortunately 4.2.6 is not available for SuSE 8.2).
• Optionally, GIMP wants librsvg and librsvg-devel.
• Optionally, GIMP 2 wants libwmf and libwmf-devel version 0.2.8. libwmf 0.2.8 is available in the SuSE archives via apt, but is perhaps better downloaded via ftp.gwdg.de in the directory pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ under applications and source (for the -devel RPM). Unfortunately, libwmf-devel is not compatible with currently available versions of ImageMagick (for SuSE).
• I needed to add /opt/gnome/bin/ to my PATH with PATH=$PATH:/opt/gnome/bin/ before running `./configure'.
• Before installing gimp-help, I just `cd /usr/lib/pkgconfig' and then `ln -s /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gimp* ./'