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