On Friday 19 October 2007 05:29:49 kerry wrote:

Please could you tell me where I can download the 2.4 for windows in complete package

AFAIK, nowhere. Wait a few days, at worst a week or two for 2.4 to be fully released & the Windows packagers to catch up.

BTW, if anyone sees a real 2.4 DEB or RPM source, please drop a message on this list saying so. Both I & my sister-in-law photographer would like to graduate from earlyish 2.3s,

Oh, & she also has a Windows laptop, so she'd also be interested in 2.4 for Win32 for those hard days. (=:

Cheers; Leon

On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:

On 10/18/07, Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:

BTW, if anyone sees a real 2.4 DEB or RPM source, please drop a message on this list saying so. Both I & my sister-in-law photographer would like to graduate from earlyish 2.3s,

I;ve been messing with the ubuntu beta (gutsy) and it installed RC3 from the start.  Maybe you can find the DEBs in their repositories?

Hmm. Fires up an Ubuntu Feisty desktop...

Only 2.2.13 in the "optional" collection, let's see... Festy Fawn... Gutsy Gibbon... Horrible... er, what sort of interesting animals begin with an H? Here is Tamania we have Devils (done), Quolls (way future), Wombats (future) and a kind of Wallaby called a Pademelon (future). Hmmm... (-:

OK, Gutsy has 2.4.0~rc3 so I might give that a whirl (Pacific Internet's mirror seems to have a copy). I wonder what other dependencies I'll have to drag down -- other than an entire distro, which would be more than a little tedious over this dialup link.

Cheers; Leon

On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:

I've been messing with the ubuntu beta (gutsy) and it installed RC3 from the start.

It seems to have enough packages to keep Feisty happy, & is even small enough to download over dialup in an afternoon. I'll dpkg this shortly. I might get pitched off-line shortly by SWMBO, but if not, I'll let you know how it went.

Cheers; Leon

On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:

with the ubuntu beta (gutsy)

OBTW, the package list is here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/graphics/gimp

I'm fetching from Pacific, which happens to be in Sydney, near where this dialup has its POP (although I'm actually in western Tasmania). The wonders of the Internet would be happy to fetch it from Belgium or Canada instead, but if dialup accounts cared, that would be free (no quota) traffic & fast (not that Mr 5.2kB/s Modem cares about that, either :-).

Cheers; Leon

On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:34:49 norman wrote:

I have just looked at the Ubuntu 7.10 'try it first disc' and Gimp 2.4rc3 was on it.

I've finally got that installed on Feisty. I started too soon, as Richard Hirner (thanks!) sent me a link for a native Feisty package after I'd got all of the strings loose. It's taken 49 package updates & the Feisty kinda thinks it's Gutsy at the moment.

Good-night from GMT+11 (GMT+10+DST), I'll let you know soonish how it actually runs.

Cheers; Leon

On Saturday 20 October 2007 20:59:15 Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:

It's taken 49 package updates

Correction, 79 packages including a couple of _games_ I had to update to track changes in font-names used in a GIMP dependency.

Cheers; Leon

On Saturday 20 October 2007 20:59:15 Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:

I'll let you know soonish how it actually runs.

This RAM-limited Celeron 566 makes it run kind of slowly, but it does run reliably & some of the newer tools are enjoyable.

A friend from the other side of Oz will be mailing me a set of Gutsy CDs & a DVD, so I'll use those to update all of the way when they arrive. Wouldn't surprise me to see Ubuntu put "real" 2.4 up as an update to replace ~rc3 shortly.

Cheers; Leon