From 86c4a9b2649a37b63032fdc7020b897bcdac5c22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Neumann Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:08:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] an attempt to improve our installation instructions. 2003-10-24 Sven Neumann * INSTALL: an attempt to improve our installation instructions. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ INSTALL | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f6753bdaa0..d7e305781e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2003-10-24 Sven Neumann + + * INSTALL: an attempt to improve our installation instructions. + 2003-10-24 Dave Neary * tools/pdbgen/pdb/paths.pdb: Applied a patch from diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f89170ff78..ecda1183e4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,8 +1,16 @@ -THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION OF THE GIMP !! YOU SHOULD BE USING THE -STABLE VERSION 1.2 INSTEAD !! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! +THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION OF THE GIMP! + +If you are looking for the stable version, use GIMP 1.2. We do +however encourage you to try GIMP-1.3. Read on further to learn more +about the installation process... -There are some basic steps to building and installing the GIMP: +There are some basic steps to building and installing the GIMP. + +The most important part is to make sure the requirements for a build +are fulfilled. We depend on a number of tools and libraries which are +listed below. For libraries this means you need to also have the +header files installed. 1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/. @@ -14,16 +22,18 @@ There are some basic steps to building and installing the GIMP: with GTK+-1.2. 3. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make sure - you have FreeType2 installed before you compile Pango. It can be - downloaded from http://www.freetype.org/. + you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you compile Pango. + FreetType2 can be downloaded from http://www.freetype.org/. + Fontconfig from http://x2.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig. 4. We use libart2. Grab the module libart_lgpl out of GNOME CVS or fetch the tarball from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libart_lgpl/ 5. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs that - are needed for some of the available plugins: tiff, png, jpeg, - print, helpbrowser, ... + are needed for some of the available plugins. We recommend to check + that the following libraries are installed: libpng, libjpeg, + libtiff, gimp-print (4.2.x), gtkhtml-2, libmng, librsvg. 6. Configure the GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want to pass some options to it, see below. @@ -36,6 +46,10 @@ There are some basic steps to building and installing the GIMP: with an installed stable version of The GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-1.3. +Unless you are experienced with building software from source, you +should not attempt to build all these libraries yourself. We suggest +you check if your distributor has development packages of them. + Please make sure you don't have any old GTK+-2.x, jpeg, etc. libraries lying around on your system, otherwise configure may fail to find the new ones.