Hi,

Tom Cole writes:

I've been trying to install perl for Gimp 2.0, which I pretty much need to use many of the functions.

However, I keep getting the following output:

checking for GIMP - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GIMP test program, checking why... *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means *** that the run-time linker is not finding GIMP or finding the wrong *** version of GIMP. If it is not finding GIMP, you'll need to set your *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point *** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that *** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH

The answer is right there in front of you. You need to tell your linker where the gimp libraries are located. This involves setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or editing /etc/ld.so.conf. In order to understand how the linker works and where it is searching for libraries, it is best to read the ld(1) manpage.

Also, even though I have gtkhtml installed and working, it seems to not be able to find my gimp-2.0 online help. The browser comes up and I get the following error:

The GIMP help files are not installed.

This is completely unrelated to gtkhtml2. You need to install the GIMP help files available from

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/

Sven

checking for GIMP - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GIMP test program, checking why...

Could you send me your config.log after you get your failure? Something is going wrong when its trying to link (at runtime I'd guess) to gimp libraries; the program it runs is pretty much hard-coded to return success right now.

Can't help with the gtkhtml/doc issues, maybe someone else knows that better.

Thanks,

Seth Burgess GIMP-Perl maintainer
sjburges@gimp.org