On Sat,18.Oct.08, 11:55:33, John Culleton wrote: > I just installed Debian specifically for the purpose of accessing the > latest Gimp 2.6.1 version. I changed the references in sources.list > from etch to lenny. I went through all the apt-get update etc. > exercises. But I still get Gimp 2.4.7. Lenny and Sid still have that because Debian is in feature freeze and no new versions are accepted. > I found a site called getdeb.net from which I can download a .deb file > containing the latest Gimp. But now what do I do? I don´t find a > command like e.g., rpm for decomposing and installing rpm files or > gunzip etc. for gzipped files. That would be 'dpkg'. > Alternatively, is there another entry in sources.list that gets me to > the version I need? Currently the file looks like this: > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main a line like this should do it deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main Don't get too scared by the name experimental, it usually is used for experiments, but during the freeze new versions go there because it's not wise to put them in sid (unstable). OTOH, if you're not in a big hurry it would be wiser to wait until Lenny is released as I assume backports will be available pretty fast. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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