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. > > 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. > You're doing it wrong. Just get the Gimp from Debian: It's there, but likely in unstable. Give it some time for people to work out the bugs and it'll drift back to testing.
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