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Installation instructions for GIMP 2.2
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Installation instructions for GIMP 2.3
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There are some basic steps to building and installing The GIMP.
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GIMP 2.2 replaces GIMP 2.0. It is advised that you uninstall GIMP 2.0
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before installing GIMP 2.2. If you want to keep GIMP 2.0 installed in
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parallel to GIMP 2.2, you have to choose a separate prefix which is
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not in your default library search path.
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GIMP 2.3 replaces earlier GIMP 2.x versions. It is advised that you
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uninstall them before installing GIMP 2.3. If you want to keep your
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older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.3, you have to
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choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search
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GIMP 2.2 is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
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GIMP 2.x is fully backward compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and
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scripts written for GIMP 2.0 will continue to work and don't need to
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be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.2.
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be changed nor recompiled to be used with GIMP 2.x.
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The most important part is to make sure the requirements for a build
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are fulfilled. We depend on a number of tools and libraries which are
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1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
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from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/.
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2. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.4.4 or better. Do not
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try to use an older GTK+ version (1.2.x), it will not work.
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GTK+ itself needs recent versions of GLib (>= 2.4.5),
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Pango (>= 1.4.0) and ATK. Sources for these can be grabbed from
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ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. GTK+-2.x and friends can be installed side
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by side with GTK+-1.2.
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2. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.10.6 or newer. GIMP
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needs an even more recent version of GLib (>= 2.12.3). It also
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wants Pango (>= 1.12.2). Sources for these can be grabbed from
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3. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make
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sure you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you
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compile Pango. FreeType2 can be downloaded from
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http://www.freetype.org/. Fontconfig from
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http://freedesktop.org/fontconfig/. GIMP 2.2 depends on
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freetype2 being newer than version 2.1.7. Older versions are
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known to have bugs that seriously affect stability of The GIMP.
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http://freedesktop.org/fontconfig/. GIMP depends on freetype2
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being newer than version 2.1.7 and fontconfig 2.2.0 or newer.
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Older versions are known to have bugs that seriously affect
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4. We use libart2. Grab the module libart_lgpl out of GNOME CVS or
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4. We use libart2. Grab the module libart_lgpl out of GNOME SVN or
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fetch the tarball from
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ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libart_lgpl/
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5. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs that
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are needed for some of the available plugins. We recommend to check
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that the following libraries are installed: libpng, libjpeg,
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libtiff, gimp-print (4.2.x), gtkhtml-2, libmng, librsvg, libwmf.
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6. Configure the GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
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5. We use dbus-glib if available. Grab it from
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http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/
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6. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs
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that are needed for some of the available plugins. We recommend
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to check that the following libraries are installed: libpng,
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libjpeg, libpoppler, libtiff, gtkhtml-2, libmng, librsvg, libwmf.
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7. The Python extension requires Python development headers to be
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present. You will also need PyGTK and the respective development
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8. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
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to pass some options to it, see below.
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7. Build the GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommened.
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9. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
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If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours
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of make, we'd appreciate if you'd send us a patch with the changes.
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8. Install the GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
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with other versions of The GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.2.
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10. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
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with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.3.
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By default there's also a link created so that you can type 'gimp'
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to start gimp-2.2. If you have the 2.0 version installed, you should
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still be able to run it using 'gimp-2.0'.
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Please make sure you don't have any old GTK+-2.x, jpeg, etc. libraries
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lying around on your system, otherwise configure may fail to find the
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Generic instructions for configuring and compiling auto-configured
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packages are included below. Here is an illustration of commands that
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might be used to build and install the GIMP. The actual configuration,
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might be used to build and install GIMP. The actual configuration,
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compilation and installation output is not shown.
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% tar xvfz gimp-2.2.x.tar.gz # unpack the sources
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% cd gimp-2.2.x # change to the toplevel directory
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% tar xvfz gimp-2.3.x.tar.gz # unpack the sources
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% cd gimp-2.3.x # change to the toplevel directory
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% ./configure # run the `configure' script
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% make # build the GIMP
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% make install # install the GIMP
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The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts the GIMP to
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run on it. The script has many options, some of which are described in
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the generic instructions included at the end of this file. All of the
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% make install # install GIMP
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The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts GIMP to run on
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it. The script has many options, some of which are described in the
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generic instructions included at the end of this file. All of the
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options can be listed using the command `./configure --help'. There
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are several special options the GIMP `configure' script recognizes.
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--enable-debug and --disable-debug. This option causes the build
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process to compile with debugging enabled. If debugging is
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disabled, the GIMP will instead be compiled with optimizations turned
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disabled, GIMP will instead be compiled with optimizations turned
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on. The default is for debugging to be disabled. NOTE: This
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option is intended primarily as a convenience for developers.
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--enable-profile and --disable-profile. This options causes the build
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process to compile with execution profiling enabled. The default is
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for profiling to be disabled. NOTE: This option is intended primarily
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as a convenience for developers.
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--enable-ansi and --disable-ansi. This option causes stricter
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ANSI C checking to be performed when compiling with GCC. The
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default is for strict checking to be disabled. NOTE: This option
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is intended primarily as a convenience for developers.
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--enable-gimpdir=DIR. This option changes the default directory
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the gimp uses to search for its configuration files from ~/.gimp-2.2
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(the directory .gimp-2.2 in the users home directory) to DIR.
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GIMP uses to search for its configuration files from ~/.gimp-2.3
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(the directory .gimp-2.3 in the users home directory) to DIR.
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--enable-binreloc. When compiled for Linux with this option enabled,
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GIMP will be binary relocatable. Plug-ins and data files will
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be searched relative to the gimp binary instead of in the paths
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defined at compile time.
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--with-shm=[none|sysv|posix|auto]. This option allows you to specify
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how image data is transported between the core and plug-ins. Usually
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the best way to do this is detected automatically.
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--without-libtiff, --without-libjpeg, --without-libpng. configure
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will bail out if libtiff, libjpeg or libpng can not be found. You
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--without-lcms. If for some reason you want to build GIMP without
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using lcms for color support, you can build with --without-lcms.
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--without-poppler. If for some reason you don't want to build the PDF
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import plug-in that uses libpoppler, you can use --without-poppler.
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--without-print. If for some reason you don't want to build the Print
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plug-in based on the GtkPrint API, you can build with --without-print.
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--without-gnomevfs. If you don't want to use gnomevfs to access remote
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files, you can pass --without-gnomevfs to the configure script.
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--without-libcurl. If you don't want to use libcurl to access remote
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files, you can pass --without-gnomevfs to the configure script.
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--without-alsa. If you don't want to compile ALSA support into the
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MIDI input controller module, you can use the --without-alsa option.
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--without-linux-input. If you don't want to compile the Linux Input
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controller module, you can use the --without-linux-input option.
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--without-dbus. If you want to build without D-Bus support, you can
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pass --without-dbus to the configure script.
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--with-gif-compression=[lzw|rle|none]. Allows to tune the compression
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algorithm used by the GIF plug-in. If you are afraid of Unisys' LZW
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patent (which should have expired in most countries by now), you
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--disable-print. The print plug-in requires a recent version of
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libgimpprint. If you don't have it already installed, download
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it from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/. You need to pass
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--without-gimp to gimp-print's configure script to build it without
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having gimp-1.2 installed. If you want to compile GIMP without
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support for printing, use the --disable-print option.
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--enable-mp. This options control whether to build GIMP with or without
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support for multiple processors. This option is off by default. If
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you do have multiply processors and run GIMP with an OS supporting
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them you will like to enable this features to use all of your
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horsepower. Enabling it on singleprocessor systems won't harm but
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cause a bit processing overhead.
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--disable-mp. This option allows you to disable support for multiple
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processors. It is enabled by default.
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--with-sendmail=[PATH]. This option is used to tell GIMP where to find
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the sendmail command. Normally this options don't have to be used
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because configure tries to find it in the usual places.
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--with-desktop-dir=[PATH]. This option specifies where to install
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links to the gimp desktop files. These files are used by desktop
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environments that comply to the specs published at freedesktop.org.
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The default value ${prefix}/share should be fine if your desktop
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environment is installed in the same prefix as gimp. No links are
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created if the desktop directories don't exist or you used
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--without-desktop-dir.
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desktop files. These files are used by desktop environments that
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comply to the specs published at freedesktop.org. The default
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value ${prefix}/share should be fine if your desktop environment
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is installed in the same prefix as gimp. No files are installed
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if you call configure with --without-desktop-dir.
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--disable-default-binary. Use this option if you don't want to make
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gimp-2.2 the default gimp installation. Otherwise a link called
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gimp pointing to the gimp-2.2 executable will be installed.
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--enable-gimp-console. In addition to the standard gimp binary,
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build a console-only binary which does not link GTK+ at all.
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gimp-2.3 the default gimp installation. Otherwise a link called
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gimp pointing to the gimp-2.3 executable will be installed.
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--disable-gimp-console. Use this option if you don't want the
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gimp-console binary to be built in addition to the standard binary.
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gimp-console is useful for command-line batch mode or as a server.
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--disable-python. If for some reason you don't want to build the
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Python based pygimp plug-in, you can use --disable-python.
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--without-script-fu. If for some reason you don't want to build the
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Script-Fu plug-in, you can use --without-script-fu.
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The `make' command builds several things:
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- A bunch of public libraries in the directories starting with 'libgimp'.
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- The plug-in programs in the 'plug-ins' directory.
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- Some modules in the 'modules' subdirectory.
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- The main GIMP program 'gimp-2.2' in `app'.
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- The main GIMP program 'gimp-2.3' in `app'.
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The `make install' commands installs the gimp header files associated
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with the libgimp libraries, the plug-ins, some data files and the GIMP
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