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  * Unless you are experienced with building software from source, *
  * you should not attempt to build all these libraries yourself!  *
  * We suggest that you check if your distributor has development  *
  * packages of them and use these instead.                        *
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  1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
     from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/. 

  2. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.10.13 or newer.  GIMP
     needs an even more recent version of GLib (>= 2.12.3).  It also
     wants Pango (>= 1.12.2).  Sources for these can be grabbed from
     ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.

  3. We require PangoFT2, a Pango backend that uses FreeType2. Make
     sure you have FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you
     compile Pango.  FreeType2 can be downloaded from
     http://www.freetype.org/.  Fontconfig from
     http://freedesktop.org/fontconfig/.  GIMP depends on freetype2
     being newer than version 2.1.7 and fontconfig 2.2.0 or newer.
     Older versions are known to have bugs that seriously affect
     stability of GIMP.

  4. We use libart2. Grab the module libart_lgpl out of GNOME SVN or
     fetch the tarball from
     ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libart_lgpl/

  5. We use dbus-glib if available. Grab it from
     http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/

  6. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs
     that are needed for some of the available plugins. We recommend
     to check that the following libraries are installed: libpng,
     libjpeg, libpoppler, libtiff, gtkhtml-2, libmng, librsvg, libwmf.

  7. The Python extension requires Python development headers to be
     present. You will also need PyGTK and the respective development
     headers.

  8. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
     to pass some options to it, see below.

  9. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
     If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours
     of make, we'd appreciate if you'd send us a patch with the changes.

10. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
     with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.4.
     By default there's also a link created so that you can type 'gimp'
     to start gimp-2.4.

Please make sure you don't have any old GTK+-2.x, jpeg, etc. libraries
lying around on your system, otherwise configure may fail to find the
new ones.