[SOLVED] How to install mga6 package on Mageia 7? (GIMP 2.8)

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[SOLVED] How to install mga6 package on Mageia 7? (GIMP 2.8)

Postby MagicD3VIL » Feb 24th, '20, 09:19

Greetings,
I need to install Gimp 2.8.22 (few features frequently use were removed in 2.10) on Mageia 7 but it is only available as Mageia 6 package (gimp-2.8.22-1.mga6.x86_64.rpm). Is there any way how to install the older version?
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 24th, '20, 18:56

From mageia packages, not easily, no. You could temporarily add a set of mga6 repos, and check if urpmi would resolve all dependencies when doing
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urpmi --downgrade gimp



Sadly older gimp versions don't seem to be available as AppImage
And for flatpak you might need to tinker around.
Have a look at https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki ... owngrading or maybe https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3097
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby benmc » Feb 24th, '20, 21:53

alternative would be to run Mga-6 in a virtual box just for this version of GIMP.

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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby jiml8 » Feb 25th, '20, 18:13

It might work to download the gimp package and install it, ignoring dependencies. You might have to symlink some libraries to satisfy exactly what gimp looks for.

I have done such things on many occasions. Usually (but now always) it works. You are also vulnerable to issues that crop up when you update the rest of your system.
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby martinw » Feb 25th, '20, 21:12

You could also try rebuilding the mga6 version for mga7. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_do_your_own_backports but download the mga6 SRPM, not the Cauldron one.
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Gimp 2.8.22 on Mageia 7

Postby MagicD3VIL » Oct 2nd, '20, 15:02

To get back to this issue, I was not able to rebuild the package for mga7, due to unsatisfied gegl-3.0. Mageia 7 already has gegl-4 and there are some patch files in the GIMP 2.8 package meant to patch gegl-3.0 so I have no idea how that would have worked.

Also, I didn't found out how to install a package with urpmi ignoring dependencies, as jiml8 suggested.

If someone would be able to rebuild this package somehow I would be really grateful.
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Re: Gimp 2.8.22 on Mageia 7

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 2nd, '20, 16:23

MagicD3VIL wrote:Also, I didn't found out how to install a package with urpmi ignoring dependencies, as jiml8 suggested.

urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force
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Re: Gimp 2.8.22 on Mageia 7

Postby MagicD3VIL » Oct 2nd, '20, 16:39

Thank you so much! I had to also download the older lib64gimp2.0_0-2.8.22-1.mga6.x86_64.rpm but after that, the Gimp 2.8.22 installs with no problems and is fully usable :)

EDIT: I don't know why but I couldn't find either --allow-nodeps or --allow-force on the Mageia URPMI wiki page... hmm
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 2nd, '20, 16:58

The urpmi wiki page is pretty old, and is more intended to show some use cases and show the other urpm* commands.
But both --allow-nodeps and --allow-force are shown in the actual --help output from urpmi and also in the man page.

man urpmi wrote: --allow-nodeps
With this option, urpmi will ask the user on error whether it should continue the installation without checking dependencies. By default, urpmi exits immediately in this case.

--allow-force
With this option, urpmi will ask the user on error whether it should proceed to a forced installation. By default, urpmi exits immediately in this case.
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby isadora » Oct 2nd, '20, 17:41

Please MagicD3VIL, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead. ;)
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Re: Any way to install mga6 package on Mageia? (GIMP)

Postby MagicD3VIL » Oct 2nd, '20, 17:47

Yeah I actually forgot to do that :lol: Thanks for reminding me! I also edited the title a bit so people could find it better if someone would eventually have the same question ;)
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