GIMP 2.6 release on FTP

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GIMP approaches the next stable release and only a handful bugs are left to be fixed before GIMP 2.6 is ready.2008-09-17

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

2.6 here already, great news

If you want to compile manually I can show you how so just ask.

Building GIMP from Source

Firstly sudo apt-get install build-essential

Latest babl ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/babl/ <--Install first
Latest GEGL ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gegl/

Both of these should be ./configure --prefix=/usr

Then the following packages(some I have forgot, sorry but GIMP configure will tell you )

libgtk-dev
xserver-xorg-dev
python-2.5-dev
intltool
libgnomeui-dev

Remove your GIMP2.4 packages and run ./configure --prefix=/usr then make then sudo make install in your GIMP-2.6.0 directory. Run make clean to clean your directory after. Good luck