dgdriscoll has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I try to install the gimp module it wants gtk1.2. Gimp uses gtk2.something. When I try to install gtk1.2 on my machine it recognizes the host as "x86_64 linux" and stops because that's unsupported for 1.2. I'd like to stay with Perl if I can. I don't need a gui. How hard would it be to install the gimp modules without gtk support? Any other suggestions for getting Perl gimp modules and Gimp 2.6 to play nice together?

Thanks, dgd

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Re: install gimp, gimp::fu
by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Dec 06, 2011 at 18:10 UTC

    try Gimp-2.2pre1

    "This version of the module only works for Gimp-2.2 and Gimp-2.3"

    "gimp-2.2 (or newer, e.g. CVS or CVS snapshots) is required"

    You will need also a couple of packages:

    apt-get install libextutils-pkgconfig-perl libextutils-depends-perl
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      Thanks for your help. I installed the packages and then tried to install Gimp: . It failed tests 19-20 & 25-26 and exited without installing. I'm getting a feeling that it's just a bridge too far.

      dgd
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        Thanks for your help. I installed the packages and then tried to install Gimp: . It failed tests 19-20 & 25-26 and exited without installing. I'm getting a feeling that it's just a bridge too far. dgd

        <lePetitSarcasm> it not possible module not updated since 2001 not pass all test, sacre bleu </lePetitSarcasm>

        It appears you're ahead of the game, you got the module to compile

        I say try the examples, and if they do what they say they're doing , go ahead and install, and run with it

        update: Or try http://search.cpan.org/~sjburges/Gimp/

        http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SJ/SJBURGES/Gimp-2.2pre1.tar.gz

        cpan SJBURGES/Gimp-2.2pre1.tar.gz

        http://web.archive.org/web/20110721134241/http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut-2.0/

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        Works for me in a Debian Sid with Gimp 2.6:

        Cpan install Gimp::Eval

Running make for S/SJ/SJBURGES/Gimp-2.2pre1.tar.gz
...
Hopefully, Gimp is now correctly configured. you can now enter "make",
+ "make test" and "make install".
...
make -- OK...
All tests successful...
make test -- OK...
make install  -- OK

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