Hello:
I am trying to compile gimp-2.8 in SLED 11 sp3, but it seems that the system GTK version is too low which cost countless problems. I am just wondering could anybody provide the repository for gimp-2.8 under SLED 11 sp3?
I found one from software.opensuse.org, but it is only for SLED 11 SP2. It have some problems to install it in 11 SP3.
thank you very much.
Albert
[QUOTE=albumns;24742]Hello:
I am trying to compile gimp-2.8 in SLED 11 sp3, but it seems that the system GTK version is too low which cost countless problems. I am just wondering could anybody provide the repository for gimp-2.8 under SLED 11 sp3?
I found one from software.opensuse.org, but it is only for SLED 11 SP2. It have some problems to install it in 11 SP3.
[/QUOTE]
I can’t find a SLED 11 SP2 version at software.opensuse.org and I doubt there is ‘a repository for gimp-2.8 under SLED 11 sp3’. Like you said it needs a newer GTK version and that is very problematic. You can’t simply update the version of GTK you have installed because it’s used by GNOME. Years ago there was the same problem with Firefox 3 and SLED 10. Firefox 3 needed a newer version of GTK than was in SLED 10 and Mozilla dropped support for Firefox 2. Novell solved the problem by back porting security fixes in to Firefox 3 themselves for a while and then providing a Firefox 3 package that had dependencies on additional packages called things like firefox3-gtk2 that provided the required version of GTK and other dependencies separately to the version of GTK that everything else in SLED 10 needed. The same would need to be done with GIMP 2.8.
I looked in to building GIMP 2.8 for SLED 11 SP3 earlier this year. For what it’s worth, the script I came up with is below. It’s from May and I haven’t looked at it since or actually used GIMP 2.8 much since everything I’ve wanted to do with GIMP has been achievable with 2.6. I offer no guarantees about the functionality of the result. I ran the script just now to make sure it still works. Some of the library versions are probably out of date by now.
The recently released SLED 12 has GIMP 2.8
[CODE]
#!/bin/bash
export GIMPINSTDIR=~/apps/gimp2.8
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${GIMPINSTDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GIMPINSTDIR}/lib
export LIBFFI_LIBS="-L/usr/lib64/ -lffi"
export LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include"
export JOBS=$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)
mkdir gimp28stuff
cd gimp28stuff
curl http://download.gimp.org/pub/gegl/0.2/gegl-0.2.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvfj -
curl http://download.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.1/babl-0.1.10.tar.bz2 | tar xvfj -
curl ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.18.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.31/glib-2.31.18.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.24/gdk-pixbuf-2.24.1.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.24.4.tar.gz | tar xvfz -
curl ftp://ftp.gnome.org//pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.3/atk-2.3.95.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-2.8.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvfj -
curl http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.14.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.22.4.tar.gz | tar xvfz -
curl ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.29/pango-1.29.5.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
curl -L http://download.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.50.tar.xz | tar xvfJ -
cd babl-0.1.10
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/glib-2.31.18/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/gegl-0.2.0/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/atk-2.3.95/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/pango-1.29.5/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/gdk-pixbuf-2.24.1/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/pixman-0.24.4/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/cairo-1.12.14/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/poppler-0.22.4/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/cairo-1.12.14/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/libpng-1.2.50/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/gtk±2.24.18/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} ; sed -i ‘s!/usr/lib64:!!’ gtk/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 && rm -f modules/input/.libs/*.so && cd modules/input/ && make clean && cd - && make -j ${JOBS} && make install
cd …/gimp-2.8.4/
./configure --prefix=${GIMPINSTDIR} && make -j ${JOBS} && make install[/CODE]
Hello Mikewillis:
Many thanks for such kind explanations.
It seems that the case is more complicated that I expected. I am running some professional software under SLED 11 SP3 and some software doesn’t work well under new GTK. So I have to stick to them…
I will try your script these days and I am also looking forward to the one in the depository…
Thanks again for kind helps.
Albert
it failed with messages:
configure: error: Package requirements (gegl-0.2 >= 0.2.0) were not met:
No package ‘gegl-0.2’ found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
[QUOTE=albumns;24748]it failed with messages:
configure: error: Package requirements (gegl-0.2 >= 0.2.0) were not met:
No package ‘gegl-0.2’ found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
:([/QUOTE]
Hmmm. Well it still works for me. I can’t just figure out why you’d get that error. 
Your other posts suggests you’ve updated to SLED 12 now though, is that the case?