I am running now Ubuntu 11.10 (why I'm not waiting for the next release I have no idea as it's next week but at least now hopefully I'll be familiar, but I digress).

I have finally managed to get it to recognize my tablet. (woohoo!)

I downloaded the binary for Gimp 2.7.4 from http://alcides-mp.com/software/gimp-2-7-4-binaries-for-ubuntu/ and the archive is on my desktop.

I finally as well figured out I needed 7 zip to get the 7z x command line to work (duh) so that is all straight.

The way he has the binary set up it needs to be extracted into /opt. He says to do
$ cd /opt
$ sudo 7z x /where-you-downloaded-the-file/gimp-2.7.4-linux-amd64.7z (I of course changed the wydtf to Desktop.)

When I do that..I get
7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs)


Error:
there is no such archive


So I thought ok..what if I do this and run it from Desktop into /opt (which makes more sense to me)
cd ~/Desktop
sudo 7z x /gimp-2.7.4-linux-amd64.7z/opt

and I get the same error message of no such archive.

I have extracted it straight onto the Desktop, but it just stares at me doing nothing (as if chiding me that it should duhhh be in /opt)....

Any ideas as to how to get it extracted there?

I thought about pulling it from Desktop into /opt already extracted but I can't due to permissions not allowing me to.

Thanks ahead of time for any insights!

Edit:

Ok so extracted to Desktop and did:
sudo cp Desktop/gimp-2.7.4 /opt

in hopes it would work but it didn't...I got cp: cannot stat `Desktop/gimp-2.7.4': No such file or directory

In time I want to learn to compile etc but that comes after I have the basic set up and can work within the ubuntu environment. I am wanting a version of Gimp that has the single window mode and as I am using 2.7.5 in Windows 7, I would like to get as closer to that version as possible as I utilize many of the changes within it.

*goes back to her finagling*

-jorden (who is quickly learning so much and enjoying myself immensely)

The file was probably saved somewhere else.
Try
and check if the file really is there.
Gerard.

Edit: Oops sorry didn't catch everything you wrote.
Quote "sudo cp Desktop/gimp-2.7.4 /opt"
will throw errors because /home/<username>/ is missing.
Try to add "./" (w/o the quotes) like this ./Desktop.
./ is shorthand for /home/<username>/.

it is there:

@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ls -a
. gimp-2.7.4
.. gimp-2.7.4-linux-amd64.7z
@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

I edited my first post.
Gerard.

The 7zip command will be (x to keep the directory structure -o for the output directory - no space between the o and the /opt))

sudo 7z x -o/opt gimp-2.7.4..blah...7z

remember that pressing the tab key will autocomplete those long filenames.

Now this is a 64 bit version so I hope you have 64 bit Ubuntu installed. I haven't so I can only go so far.

I would try, in a terminal, changing to the gimp directory
cd /opt/gimp-2.7.4/bin

then maybe try running the gimp-2.7.4 file ( it is a script to set paths and start gimp-2.7.4-binary)
maybe a dot-slash as per ./gimp-2.7.4

the reports from the link you gave were a mixed so don't get your hopes up
best of luck

@ubuntu:~$ sudo cp ./Desktop/gimp-2.7.4 /opt
[sudo] password for xxx:
cp: omitting directory `./Desktop/gimp-2.7.4'
xxx@ubuntu:~$

so I changed it to be recursive
sudo cp -r ./Desktop/gimp-2.7.4 /opt

OMG it worked...and initiated!!!

thanks Gerard!

I am running 64 bit and thank you as well for your insights, I'm learning a lot already!

When in doubt where you are in the tree enter this:

It will tell you.
Gerard.

I'm just kind of proud I had the thought I had to copy duhhh subfolders to and made it recursive!

*pats my back*

Mega mega thanks

This might be useful when you use the command line:
http://ss64.com/bash/
Gerard.

Ubuntu users can install the latest version of Gimp from PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp

ohh bookmarked Gerard thanks again!

Yafu, thank you as well...now that I got the process down...I may try that....as now I am stuck on the gmic adding.....I got it in, but when starting gmic up within gimp, I got an error message from gmic about obsolete files or somesuch...then used the software thing to install gmic and now it's totally separate from my gimp, so that's no good.

But this whole journey has been an absolute wonderous learning process. Thank you all.