Newbie: GIMP help-section

[oldman]

Marcus Zingmark wrote:

> The help-section in GIMP is mostly empty for me, I only have the 
> subjects from 1 to 1.3, rest is empty.
>
> Yum says I have "gimp-help.noarch 2-0.1.0.7.1" installed
>
> Anyway, i tried to install "gimp-help-2.0.9.tar.gz" that I found 
> online, and ./configure gave me this message:
>
> "checking for GIMP... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config 
> search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gimp-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gimp-2.0' found
> configure: error:
> ** Couldn't find a GIMP-2.0 installation. If you want to skip this 
> check and
> ** install the help files to the configured prefix, use the 
> --without-gimp
> ** configure option. Note that GIMP will then only find the help files 
> if it
> ** is installed in the same prefix. See the file 'INSTALL' for more 
> help."
>
> I only want the help section up and running, and I'm kind of new to 
> Linux, so please help :)
>
    I have the same gimp-help as you do, though I see much more help 
than you do! take a look at:

rpm -ql gimp-help | less

which will give you a list of the files that (should have) installed, 
check to make sure that they do exist (especially the ones in the
/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/cs directory
you can access these files with Firefox using url: 
file:///usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html
Also which version of Gimp is installed? mine is gimp-2.2.8-0.fc4.2

Finally, here are some links you might find useful:
<http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>
<http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/
http://gimp-savvy.com/
http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials


Scott