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The Lightzone photo editor http://lightzoneproject.org/ is quite nice. I was just able to successfully install it on Mageia3.

To install go to ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/i686/ and download the lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.i686.rpm package. The other packages should be available from Mageia. You probably will not need the devel and debug packages. You will need to install the lightzone package with the --nodeps flag since there are some minor library differences between Fedora and Mageia. But for me the whole thing just worked and I am very happy with it.

Thx for this tip, ghmitch!
cheers,

Bernd

ghmitch wrote:To install go to ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/i686/ and download the lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.i686.rpm package.

No need to, can be directly done via urpmi, e.g. for 64bit:

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urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/x86_64/lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.x86_64.rpm

for 32bit:

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urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/i686/lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.i686.rpm

Thanks doktor for the simple solution . Photivo also looks interesting, but it has library issues unfortunately. It would be really nice if Mageia could be a bit more compatible with Fedora and SuSE in terms of library support (since they are the non-debian distros that most apps support) and a bit more compatible in terms of backward support (compat libraries etc). I'm not trying to bitch or anything like that, just wishing.

doktor5000 wrote:

ghmitch wrote:To install go to ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/i686/ and download the lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.i686.rpm package.

No need to, can be directly done via urpmi, e.g. for 64bit:

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urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/x86_64/lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.x86_64.rpm

for 32bit:

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urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ktgw0316:/LightZone/Fedora_19/i686/lightzone-4.0.0-18.1.i686.rpm

I can confirm Dok's method also works on Mageia 4, nice program too.