On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:59:16 -0500, Paul Norton wrote: > > > Could you please tell me where on the freshrpms.net site you > > > found The Gimp. I looked but my failing eyes could not find > > > it. > > > > ftp://freshrpms.net > > > > I haven't evaluated them, and hence I don't recommend them. I just > > remember that several repositories offered gimp beta packages which > > upgraded the stable versions included with Fedora Core or Red Hat Linux. > > > > -- > > > > It does not upgrade 1.2 ... it installs 1.3 separately (since its beta) It's named "gimp-2.0.0" and then upgrades "gimp-1.2" unless you install it manually with "rpm -ivh". Since none of its files conflict with gimp 1.2, it can coexist. On the contrary, fedora.us has named the gimp 1.3 development branch "gimp2-1.3", so tools like yum see both the stable and the development package and don't upgrade the stable one with the development version. --
