[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

["Henry W. Peters" <hwpeters jamadots com>]

Hi,

Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge & or experience 
building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP 
is 2.6.1.

Some questions I have (for example) are: Do I /really/ have to uninstall 
the old version...? Any dependency issues (conflicts, etc.) ? Any way to 
get the (newer) dependencies by means of the terminal? Will I be able to 
actually do this (i.e.,/ do a working build with this version/)?

Thanks much for any pointers.

Henry