I'm running Ubuntu Studio 9.04 and installed 2.7.1 just to try it out.

It runs fine, and has caused me no lost date, but immediately upon installation complained with message such as 'could not write tile data to disk - no space available' or something to that effect. When those messages appear, the same one will repeat itself several times. I can dismiss the message boxes and go on about my business.

I had just chalked this up to the price one pays to try out unstable versions and have been living with this situation for several weeks.

This morning, I decided to investigate a bit, and, sure enough, my /, home, and desktop folders all were reporting 0 free space.

I went exploring and moved about 2 GB of miscellaneous downloads cluttering my desktop, and have now run the Gimp for about 15 minutes with no error messages.

My question is whether I have any options about where Gimp needs to have space in order to do its 'bookkeeping' chores as you use the program, or must I always (I guess I really should not only for Gimp, but other programs, as well) make certain it has some headroom in my Ubuntu folders.

Thanks.

Caruso

You don't need Ubuntu Studio for any version of Gimp. I just happened to have an interest in Multimedia, so I did a search on how to install Ubuntu Studio over my existing 9.04 setup.

For gimp 2.7.1, I just typed into my browser something like "how to install Gimp 2.7.1 in Ubuntu 9.04" then followed the instructions that the search returned. You do have to complete uninstall previous versions of Gimp . . . well, there is a way to make them run side by side, but it's simpler just to uninstall previous versions, and, since its so simple to reinstall previous versions if you find you want to revert, I didn't feel it necessary to have both versions available on my system at the same time.

Although warning abound not to install 2.7.1 on a "production" system, I am happy to report that it runs just fine, has never crashed, and, once I sorted out my system resources to give the application room to run, it no longer pops up error messages.

Go ahead and install it. I suspect you'll be pleased.

Caruso

I'd like to try it out as well - do you have to have Ubuntu Studio for that

?

I'm running regular Ubuntu (planning to upgrade to 9.10 real soon). Is there

a

package repository I can add that will let me try Gimp 2.7.1?