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# heh
I was going to ask you how you were getting on with that. Maybe I shouldn't.
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:34, archived)
# actually, fairly well.
it's just that the gimp scares me, and i don't understand much about what goes on behind it all. i can manage point and click from the kde menu, and installing things through YaST2, but not doing anything properly. i tried installing a load of stuff from source earlier, and not a damnable thing actually worked.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:36, archived)
# there is a book on the interweb called
grokking the gimp.

it's nice
(I helped save b3ta! tef, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:38, archived)
# well, the only thing the transform tool will do is rotate,
yet it tells me in the tooltip that it'll do all the things the free transform in photoshop does.

EXCEPT IT DOESN'T ARRRRRRRRRGH
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:44, archived)
# try double clicking
on the button for it - sounds like you haven't got the tool options window up. It'll be available off the dialogs menu on the main gimp window as well I think
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:46, archived)
# yeah
I'm glad I stuck with the GIMP but it wasn't at all easy to begin with. I've had trouble with installing some stuff as well. But I keep finding that I'm too lazy to look into these things in more detail, and I'm happier with what I have got working than I've ever been with windows. I really ought to put more effort into learning what's really going on, but the reason I like suse is that I haven't really had to.
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:41, archived)
# I like the gimp,
it works on this PC, Photoshop kills it.
(goat thinks you're shit, Sat 2 Aug 2003, 23:43, archived)
# installing from source
if you get a source rpm (*.src.rpm), just run(as root) 'rpm --rebuild this.is.my.program.src.rpm'

it will bung the compiled rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/arch (where arch = your architecture - i386 etc.)

it it is just a source archive (normally *.tgz), you would normally extract it (tar xvfz proggie.tgz), go into the new directory, run './configure', then 'make' and finally as root 'make install'

bob's your uncle.

if i were you, i'd get mandrake - there is much better english support available (suse is VERY german) and it's got urpmi. if you wanna install gimp, for example, you just type 'urpmi gimp' and it will download it/ask you for the cd. that was it. windoze, beat that
(nugchuts, Sun 3 Aug 2003, 0:18, archived)