GIMP 2 RPM for RedHat?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:11:35 +0100, Boris Folgmann wrote:

> I tried to recompile the FC1-SRPM of the brandnew GIMP 2 stable release
> from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/users/drc on a RH9 system.
> 
> Problems are failed build dependencies:
>         gtk2-devel >= 2.2.2 is needed by gimp-2.0.0-1
>         fontconfig-devel >= 2.2.0 is needed by gimp-2.0.0-1
> 
> I tried rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps gimp-2.0.0-1.src.rpm,
> but the GTK+ test program failed, so it seems that those newer versions are
> really needed. Can anybody tell me how much needs to be done to do the
> recompile w/o upgrading the entire RH9 system to FC1?

[What has this to do with Fedora Legacy?]

You may need to upgrade the gtk2 2.2.1 and fontconfig 2.1 packages to meet
gimp's requirements. Rebuilding them from src.rpm may work, and whether
the resulting binary rpms will be compatible with the rest of Red Hat
Linux 9 remains to be seen.