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  From: Geoffrey D. Bennett <g@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : A.F.Riling <rilingaf@senet.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:41:51 +0930 (CST)

Re: GIMP install

> Franco,
> 
> Yep - I had some problems too but don't remember the one you describe. 
>  Mine were fixed with the help of Geoffrey Bennett - meaning I watched in 
> awe as he did his magic :-)

I think your problem was that the directory the gimp libraries were
installed into wasn't listed in /etc/ld.so.conf.  No magic here...
just add the name of the directory to that file and run 'ldconfig'.

> Anyway, couple of questions...
> 
> Are you using Redhat Linux?
> Did you download gimp as a RPM file or as a tar.gz?

To install gimp from the RPMs available at ftp.redhat.com (and various
mirrors), you need:
gimp-0.99.10-1.i386.rpm
gtk-0.99.10-1.i386.rpm
as well as gimp-data-0.99.9.tar.gz from the Gimp ftp site:
ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp/developers/

After installing gimp and gtk, install gimp-data, then move it to
/usr/whatever instead of /usr/local/whatever and also rename it to
0.99.10.

Another package that will probably be of use is
gimp-freefonts-0.99.10-1.i386.rpm -- it is a collection of scalable
fonts for use with X/gimp/ghostscript/etc.

> how you doing?  Hope you may be able to help me.  I downloaded Gimp
> the other day and am trying to install it, but unfortunately, i am having
> lots
> of trouble.  Everytime I run make I get some errors re unable to find
> certain files (ie linux/time.h)  Did you have any problems and if so, how
> did you
> go about fixing them?

That sounds like you don't have the libc-devel and/or kernel-headers
packages installed.

Regards,
-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/