GIF driver for Gimp ?

[dave selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk>]

I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it 
appears not to be supported. 

I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to 
enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp.

Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to GIF, and 
some legal stuff about not being able to compress images.

Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, preferible in 
compress mode as well as de-compress.

Dave