Re: updating GIMP

Thanks Ken,

Well, I'm smarter than the basic Google guy.  But it's been many years 
since I first installed GIMP, so I s'pose I just wanted to ask someone 
smarter than me HOW to upgrade.

Like - when I download the latest version, will it work on my system?  
Will it upgrade my old version, or do I need to delete that first?  I 
guess I still have questions before I proceed. Will you help me?

BTW - I'm stuck w/WinXP for now, but hope to be done with it, ASAP - can 
you help me with that, too (I've toyed with Linux, but never got very far)?
-Al

P.S. Thanks for taking the time to reply - and NO, I NEVER expected to 
have been forced back into WinXP, again - although, it's actually a 
rather solid OS... beats the s*t out of W98 (and it's successor) and 
Vista (and yes, I've also had W7 and W10).


On 4/21/2017 5:20 AM, ken wrote:
> On 04/21/2017 01:16 AM, Alan Jacobson wrote:
>> I currently have GIMP 2.6.11 installed on a Dell D600 running WinXP, 
>> but would like to update to the latest possible version.  How do I do 
>> that?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>
> Normally I would recommend googling "gimp upgrade".  That would lead 
> you to gimp's web page(s) with its offerings and instructions.  But I 
> don't believe they'll have anything which runs on WinXP.  Still you 
> could try it.
>
> I'd recommend, though, and much more strongly, that you upgrade out of 
> WinXP.  It's not secure and it'll likely catch a virus eventually if 
> you use it on the internet.  If you can't afford MS's prices on 
> upgrades, give some time to consider Linux.  (The D600 is a 686, isn't 
> it?)  If you have sufficient disk space, you could even set up Linux 
> to dual-boot, so you'd have WinXP in reserve for any number of 
> reasons.  Linux would be much more secure and would provide an upgrade 
> path if none exists for WinXP.
>
> Last but not least, this list is for gnome and has pretty much nothing 
> to do with gimp.  Moreover, this list is pretty much dead; you won't 
> get answers here, even when they're about gnome.  In addition, there 
> are mailing lists-- well, at least one, directly pertinent to gimp and 
> it can't be less active than this one.
>
> Good luck.
>

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