For the insane: Building The GIMP 2.4 for Feisty

[DerangedDingo]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GIMP2.4-on-Feisty

I just wrote the wiki page after trying to do it myself.
I wrote down everything I remembered too, and I hope someone could actually compile it for Feisty and release it somewhere, maybe in a Launchpad PPA for the rest of us who want the 2.4 release but don't want to upgrade to Feisty

Have a look, and feel free to try it yourself or add information.
Opinions and critiques are welcome as well

Have at it!

[cinematography]

Thank you for this. I'm not quite ready to switch to Gusty yet, and this tutorial looks promising. And I'd also appreciate it if someone could make a Gimp 2.4 package for Feisty.

[adamorjames]

It's not in the backports?
Well, if not, great work!

[Tsu Dho Nimh]

I cheated. I'm running Win2K on VMware. Downloaded the Windows Package and installed it.

If anyone gets a good Ubuntu binary of it, I'd like to know.

[rax_m]

There are debs for gimp 2.4 at getdeb.net ...
they don't seem to be platform specific, but I haven't had the guts to uninstall my current gimp install and try it yet

Anyone else feeling braver?

[Chris Johnson]

I tried installing Gimp 2.4 from source a week or so ago. Installed GTK+ 2.10.14, and got the new version of Gimp running without too much trouble.

HOWEVER, for some reason installing GTK+ 2.10.14 reverted all of my GTK 2 window decorations to GTK 1 style: not just the style of Gimp, but the whole Gnome interface. I reverted to my old GTK with 'sudo make uninstall' in the GTK 2.10.14 source directory, and all was back to normal with (as one would expect) a non-functioning Gimp 2.4. 'sudo make uninstall' in the Gimp 2.4 source directory resurrected Gimp 2.2 though, so no harm done. No real success though.