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Puzzle about my version of gimp

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Puzzle about my version of gimp Leonard Evens 20 Nov 07:36
  Puzzle about my version of gimp Martin Nordholts 20 Nov 08:19
   Puzzle about my version of gimp Akkana Peck 22 Nov 04:09
    Puzzle about my version of gimp Sven Neumann 22 Nov 13:33
     Puzzle about my version of gimp Leonard Evens 22 Nov 14:08
Leonard Evens
2008-11-20 07:36:04 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Puzzle about my version of gimp

I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7. The explanation might be that the help package is 2-2.4.1. I can't figure out any way to tell from the running program which version it is.

On the other hand I recently got a laptop runing Ubuntu 8.04. When start gimp on it, 'about' tells me I have gimp 2.4.5, which I believe.

Any comments or explanations?

Martin Nordholts
2008-11-20 08:19:22 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Puzzle about my version of gimp

Leonard Evens wrote:

I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7.

Help -> About is much more reliable than the package name.

To find out for sure you can look in the NEWS file for 2.4 and try to reproduce bugs that only existed in one of the versions. Depending on what bugs you can reproduce, you can derive what version you have.

Another way would be to install the source package of the gimp program package and look in the configure.in file, which has the version at the top.

- Martin

Akkana Peck
2008-11-22 04:09:27 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Puzzle about my version of gimp

Martin Nordholts writes:

Leonard Evens wrote:

I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from which I conclude it is really gimp 2.4.7.

Help -> About is much more reliable than the package name.

Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what Help->About tells you.

...Akkana

Sven Neumann
2008-11-22 13:33:08 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Puzzle about my version of gimp

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:09 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:

Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what Help->About tells you.

Both display the same compiled-in version string. So what exactly is the purpose of comparing these?

Sven

Leonard Evens
2008-11-22 14:08:03 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Puzzle about my version of gimp

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 13:33 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:09 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:

Also, run gimp --version from a terminal and compare that to what Help->About tells you.

Both display the same compiled-in version string. So what exactly is the purpose of comparing these?

Sometimes things work in mysterious ways. In this case, the suggestion induced me to use command mode. Immediately after `gimp --version' returned 2.4.1, I tried `which gimp', and that led me to the solution of the problem.

Thanks again for telling us about the code. I've tried on numerous occasions to figure out just what gimp was doing by examining the source, but I've seldom been successful.

And I apologize again for not having figure out the problem myself without bothering so many helpful people.

Sven