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Re: How to deploy deb files.



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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