[Gimp-user] For GIMP-2.8 I need Fedora 17 .. which isn't released yet

[eduperez <forums gimpusers com>]

> Thanks for the hints.
> Historically, I always needed to upgrade babl and gegl, but 2.8 required
> an new version of some other libs (gtk2?) that I couldn't work out.

> I finally managed to get 2.8 running on Fedora 14 (!) but it made the
> system instable. Can't wait for F17 to come out...

> -- Johan

Yes, there are dependencies within the dependencies, but all of them can be installed using the same 
procedure; and, if you put everything under a separate directory (I used /opt/gimp-2.8, for example), 
dependencies included, then you should not experience any instability.

-- 
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