[Gimp-user] quest about installing multiple versions of GIMP

[Kevin Cozens]

alessia wrote:
> I' ve a questo since a long time regarding the possibilty to install and 
> run multiple, and by the way different, versions of Gimp on the same 
> computer.

If you are installing a Windows version just enter a different directory from 
the default choice when asked for the install directory. If you are in a Linux 
environment, you *might* be able to installed a pre-compiled package to a 
different directory if your package management system supports relocation of 
packages (ie. the --relocate option for RPM based package management). Not 
sure how well it will work in practice. The only other option is to build from 
source. Just avoid have GIMP in /usr then another one in /usr/local as this 
can still result in conflicts between versions.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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