GIMP-1.2.5

Introduction to GIMP

The GIMP package contains the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Package information

GIMP dependencies

Required

GTK+-1.2.10

Optional

libtiff-3.5.7, libpng-1.2.5, libjpeg-6b, gimp-print, AAlib-1.4rc5, mpeg_lib-1.3.1, Python-2.3.2 and Perl modules:Gtk-Perl-0.7008, PDL-2.4.0 and Parse-RecDescent-1.94

Installation of GIMP

Install GIMP by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-print &&
make &&
make install

Configuring GIMP

Config files

~/.gimp-1.2

Configuration Information

GIMP executes a configuration wizard for each users upon their initial invocation of the program.

Contents

The GIMP package contains gimp, escputil, gimp-config and gimp-remote.

Description

gimp

gimp is an image manipulation program. It works with a variety of image formats and provides a large selection of tools.

escputil

escputil is a utility to perform maintenance tasks on an Epson Stylus inkjet printer.

gimp-config

gimp-config is used by other programs that want to link to GIMP libraries.

gimp-remote

gimp-remote is a small utility that tells a running GIMP to open a local or remote image file.