[Gimp-user] Puzzle about gimp version, continued. Please help!!!

[Leonard Evens]

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 01:18 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 15:28 -0600, Leonard Evens wrote:
> 
> > Here is some further information.  I recently acquired a laptop running
> > Ubuntu 8.04.   If I run gimp on it and use Help>About, it says it is 2.4.5.
> > Also, the format of the window is entirely different from that for my Fedora
> > version.  It looks like what I got with the latest version of gimp I had
> > under Fedora 7, which I think was 2.4.3.
> 
> What window is different? And how is it different?
> 
> > The most likely explanation seems to me to be that because I also have
> > gimp-help-2.4.1 installed, its version number is replacing the correct one
> > when I use Help>About from within gimp.  If I work hard enough with the
> > code, I can determine just what is happening.
> 
> gimp-help is certainly not affecting this. The version number shown in
> the About dialog is compiled into the application. There is no way it
> can show the wrong version number.
> 
> 
> Sven
> 
Thanks for the response.
See my previous note explaining what had happened.