In message Pine.LNX.4.05.10002191821420.14303-100000@sunlab17, Green J M K jmkgre@essex.ac.uk writes
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Doug Tulloch wrote:
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I found in a Q&A forum (xach.com mean anything?) someone who was getting some sort of crash in Gimp while using bezier tools, also in Linux Mandrake 6.1. He didn't get it with Red Hat 6.0. Someone pointed that it is possible that Mandrake compile using pgcc, which uses 'overzealous optimisation' Compiling gimp with gcc was suggested as a possible remedy. I wouldn't know how to go about that though.
It's worth a try.
Go to www.gimp.org and download an rpm of gimp-1.0.4.i386.rpm and install that ($ rpm -Uvh --force gimp-1.0.4.i386.rpm) and see if that helps.
It also possible that Macmillan/Mandrake have released and updated package themselves to fix it - check this first.
Sorry if some of the above is unclear or inaccurate but at the moment I can use neither modem nor printer with Linux so have to scribble things down and then reboot in Windows to communicate, but that's another story!
I remember it well...
James.
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I can't find a gimp rpm on any of the UK mirrors or even on the main site. The nearest I got was v. 1.0.2. I've downloaded a .tar.gz though. Can I use this and if so should I uninstall the Mandrake one first? Thanks for helping, by the way!