Hi,

I'm posting this again, since I really would like to check out the new features in Gimp 2.6.

As I posted a few weeks ago, Gimp 2.6.1 crashes each time I try to perform a filter, color adjustment, etc., so that I had to install 2.4.7 in order to have a working bitmap editor. This happened since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Someone suggested that it might have to do with my outdated hardware (AMD K6 II/350 MHz), but since I don't have the money right now to buy a new computer, I would like to know if anyone has an idea what I could do to fix this problem.

When running Gimp out of a shell, I am getting:

"(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Illegal instruction"

My guess is that it might have to do with GEGL, but on the other hand I am assuming that Synaptic would automatically install all the required packages. (I don't want to have to compile anything; if there's a fix for it & I need to install additional packages, I would prefer .deb files.)

I did have the latest 'libgimp' installed (I downgraded to the version for Gimp 2.4.7 in the meantime), and I am not using compiz (as Chris asked me the last time I posted on this.)

Especially after reading this very good & thorough review of Gimp 2.6, I would like to check out the Gimp's new possibilities. Two thing I am personally missing are a) 16-bit support, as well as b) better anti-aliasing. While there are workarounds to improve the latter, Gimp still doesn't output the quality of say, Photoshop. I especially become aware of this when using curves to get a chromium effect, or applying 'Lighting Effects', where I am frequently getting 'stripes' instead of smooth gradients. I don't know, though, how much this has been improved upon in Gimp 2.6.

TIA,

Claus

The stripes you're mentioning come from the limited support of bit-depth (8 bit per channel in GIMP - even in 2.6). So upgrading to 2.6 would not fix these stripes.

As for your crash-problem: I've no idea what the problem of this is or how to fix it but you can try if other .deb-packages work instead of the ubuntu 8.10 out of box-version.

you'll find the link to it on our downloads-section: http://www.gimpusers.com/gimp-download.php

best regards,

Hi,

I'm posting this again, since I really would like to check out the new features in Gimp 2.6.

As I posted a few weeks ago, Gimp 2.6.1 crashes each time I try to perform a filter, color adjustment, etc., so that I had to install 2.4.7 in order to have a working bitmap editor. This happened since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Someone suggested that it might have to do with my outdated hardware (AMD K6 II/350 MHz), but since I don't have the money right now to buy a new computer, I would like to know if anyone has an idea what I could do to fix this problem.

When running Gimp out of a shell, I am getting:

"(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Illegal instruction"

My guess is that it might have to do with GEGL, but on the other hand I am assuming that Synaptic would automatically install all the required packages. (I don't want to have to compile anything; if there's a fix for it & I need to install additional packages, I would prefer .deb files.)

I did have the latest 'libgimp' installed (I downgraded to the version for Gimp 2.4.7 in the meantime), and I am not using compiz (as Chris asked me the last time I posted on this.)

Especially after reading this very good & thorough review of Gimp 2.6, I would like to check out the Gimp's new possibilities. Two thing I am personally missing are a) 16-bit support, as well as b) better anti-aliasing. While there are workarounds to improve the latter, Gimp still doesn't output the quality of say, Photoshop. I especially become aware of this when using curves to get a chromium effect, or applying 'Lighting Effects', where I am frequently getting 'stripes' instead of smooth gradients. I don't know, though, how much this has been improved upon in Gimp 2.6.

TIA,

Claus

Hi,
This is only a suggestion but, in my experience with graphics programs (which not that extensive), installing more RAM is a relatively cheap way of getting a significant boost to performance.

Hope this helps

Roy

Claus Cyrny wrote:

Bernhard S. wrote:

[...]

Desktop files install into ${datarootdir}

Extra Binaries: gimp-console: yes
gimp-remote: no (not enabled)

Optional Features: D-Bus service: no
Language selection: yes

Optional Plug-Ins: Ascii Art: no (AA library not found) Help Browser: no (WebKit not found) LCMS: no (lcms not found or unusable) JPEG: yes
MNG: no (MNG header file not found) PDF: Using PostScript plug-in (libpoppler not found) PNG: yes
Print: yes
PSP: yes
Python: no
Script-Fu: yes
SVG: no (librsvg not found) TIFF: no
TWAIN (MacOS X): no
TWAIN (Win32): no
URI: yes (using GIO/GVfs) Windows ICO yes
WMF: no (libwmf not found) XJT: yes
XPM: no (XPM library not found)

Plug-In Features: EXIF support: no (libexif not found or too old) GNOME UI: no (libgnomeui-2.0 not found) GNOME keyring: no (gnome-keyring-1 not found)

Optional Modules: ALSA (MIDI Input): no (libasound not found or unusable) Linux Input: yes (HAL support: no) DirectInput (Win32): no
Color Correction: no (lcms not found or unusable) Soft Proof: no (lcms not found or unusable)

libpoppler IS there, as are librsvg, libexif, and libgnomeui-2.0 (I didn't check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? I downloaded the source from the FTP site (the link is included on the Download page at gimp.org).

You need the headers of the libraries. In dpkg or apt-get words, you need the xxx-dev packages. For example, libpoppler-dev, librsvg-dev, and to on.

I've got gimp 2.6.3 on Ubuntu 8.10 and it's working perfectly