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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