How to install GIMP

Luke Kearney lukek at meibin.net
Mon Jul 12 00:48:42 PDT 2004


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:43:18 +0100
Oryx <diaphanous at gmail.com> spake thus:

> Hi, i'm just wondering how I could install gimp onto my box, I have
> the package stuff but I don't know how to install it via console (i'm
> new to freebsd by the way)
> 
> hope you can help me =)
> -- 
> - Oryx

Hi,
As root do 

cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp
make install

that should be just about it I should think.  Might be worth reading the
handbook's section on ports and also how to cvsup to the latest ports
version details are at 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

HTH

LukeK
-- 
Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net>



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