[ILUG] GIMP 2.6 installation

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Phil Bradley wrote:

> Mandriva uses a system called RPM to bundle up applications (sorry if  
> this is bleedin obvious). Your distro should include some sort of tool  
> for searching for and installing RPMs and, since RPMs list any other  
> RPMs on which they depend, it will also figure out automatically the  
> full list of what you need and get it all automatically.

I'm only somewhat familiar with Mandriva myself.  I'm not sure what the
graphical tool you need is, but the command line tool is urpmi¹.  You
probably need to something like this as root:

	urpmi gimp 

which, I think, should download and install the whole thing.  That would be
from the main repository though, not cooker.

urpmq will allow you to search and find out what's available.  This is an
old mandrake box:

[gavinmc at xxxxxxx gavinmc]$ urpmq gim 
The following packages contain gim: 
gimp
gimp-doc
gimp-perl
gimpprint
libgimp1.2
libgimp1.2_1
libgimp1.2_1-devel
libgimpprint1
libgimpprint1-devel

Gavin

¹ which is to rpm what apt-get is to dpkg on debian-based systems