[Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP

[Charles Lindsey]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:23 -0000, <suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com>  
wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:53:12 -0500
> From: Jason Grove <jason@sungeek.net>
> To: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
> CC: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP

> Depending on which version of solaris 10 you installed, gimp should
> already be on it I believe (check in /usr/sfw/bin).

I installed the version on sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-v1-iso, which I think came  
out in Jan or Feb 2006 IIRC. But the current DVD is  
sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso, which is later. I cannot find GIMP itself  
anywhere on my original sol-10-u1 CDs (I have the GIMP Toolkit, but that  
is not the same thing at all).

> If you want to mount
> the DVD you can download the parts for it, recreate the dvd (just cat
> all the files together) and then use lofiadm to mount it, ie:

Ah! lofiadm is what I need, but it is not easy to find (e.g. there is no  
pointer to it from any of the mount_* man pages). So thanks to the people  
who pointed me to it.

The Good News is that, after downloading the DVD (1.2 GB over 7 hours, and  
over half my monthly dowload allowance) I succeeded is mounting it. The  
Bad News is that there was no GIMP there. So where the hell is it? Have  
they now added it to the main Solaris distribution, and hence removed it  
 from the Companion? http:www.sun.com/software/solaris/faqs/inded.jsp  
explicitly states that GIMP is on the companion CD (sic). So, if anyone  
knows where it is, or has a copy of the package they could mail to me, I  
would be grateful. I don't really want to go to the hassle of compiling it  
 from source.

> Another option is to use http://blastwave.org
> download the pkg_get.pkg and install it, then do a
> /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i gimp
> and it will install gimp for you.

The problem with Blastwave is that they insist you install their versions  
of all the libraries (which you have probably already got later versions  
of). And still all that you get is a Solaris 9 version.

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