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)