where are libgimp and libgimpui?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:24:02 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   after finally gotten all the way through "yum list updates",
> i typed "yum update" only to get:
> 
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package gimp-perl needs libgimp-1.2.so.0, this is not available.
> Package gimp-perl needs libgimpui-1.2.so.0, this is not available.
> 
>   no problem, thinks i, surely someone else would have seen this as well,
> so, as a first attempt, i went to the list archives at www.redhat.com and
> did a search on "libgimp" on the archives, only to be told that
> www.redhat.com was currently unavailable, but hey, would i like to buy
> something?
> 
>   grrrrrr ....

Grrrr. You've crippled your yum.conf file. The Fedora Core 1.90 base
channel is missing and hence The Gimp 1.2.5:

$ rpm --redhatprovides libgimp-1.2.so.0 libgimpui-1.2.so.0
gimp-1.2.5-1
gimp-1.2.5-1

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