Re: [Gimp-user] why no compiled version for Ubuntu 11.10

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

On 12/11/2012 12:44 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM, mamboze wrote:
> > @owen   I wouldn't have thought that 11.10 qualified as an 'ancient distro'
> > unless I was on some kind of weird time warp :)
> >
> > Anyhow, thanks to all for putting me in the picture. Just one question tho if I
> > opt for 12.04 LTS, will later versions of GIMP run on it or am I looking at an
> > approximately 12 month window for support?
>
> Rather the latter. GIMP tends to occasionally pick latest GTK+ abnd
> glib libraries as dependencies.

It's times like this I am very glad that I stay "behind the curve"
of new releases of software I use for production.  Early next year I
will be cleaning Ubuntu out and installing Mint, and GIMP 2.8 is a
stock part in that distro, yay!  I expect lots of minor annoyances
and adjustments with the new OS but no show-stoppers with the GIMP.

:o)

Steve