Adding a gimp plugin

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:00 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > A reply from Linux Format forum:
> > <quote>
> > If you have the gimptool program installed, you can use it to
> > install Script-Fu scripts. In a terminal window, type gimptool
> > --install-script file.scm (that's two dashes together). For Python
> > or Perl plug-ins, use gimptool --install-bin file.
> > 
> > This shortcuts the need to find your GIMP profile..... You'll need
> > gimptool for installing C plug-ins anyway....
> > </quote>
> >
> > I tried it, but got
> > 
> > Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> > Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> > Error: Couldn't find file to build/install/uninstall
> >
> > There is a directory /usr/lib/gtk-2.0, so perhaps it's a path
> > problem.  If it works for you, perhaps you could guide me on this?
> 
> gtk+-2.0.pc is provided by gtk2-devel.  It seems that not having that
> as a requirement for the gimp package is a small bug.  Either it
> should be added to gimp's dependencies or gimptool should be split out
> and have gtk2-devel as a dependency.

Wouldn't it make more sense to move gimptool into the gimp-devel
package, which does have the necessary dependency?

Paul.