installer failure ,wrong installer path (windows)

Summary:

that installer cannot work on gimp 2.6 or 2.7

installer failure ,wrong installer path (windows)

PhotoComiX 11 Mar 2009 17:10

The installation file is a self-extractig executable. If you have GIMP installed in the default location, i.e. in the GIMP-2.0 folder under your main Program Files folder, just execute the file

INstaller can't work because that "the default location, the GIMP-2.0 folder in Program Files "does not exist:
Gimp folder for Gimp 2.6.x is called "GIMP-2.6" NOT "GIMP-2.0"

Something similar to install in 2.7, that installer will only deflate the content in a new bogus "GIMP-2.0" folder..

.only with obsolete version as 2.0 or 2.2 (not sure about 2.4) that may work

Last edited on 11 Mar 2009 17:22 by PhotoComiX Show more

Re: installer failure ,wrong installer path (windows)

CarloB 11 Mar 2009 18:17

I have used the standard GIMP 2.6.5 installer for Windows and it used the folder "GIMP-2.0". It was installed in a fresh Windows XP (virtual) installation.
This is the configuration which I have tested the self-extracting archive onto.
Are there different installers around?

Re: installer failure ,wrong installer path (windows)

PhotoComiX 11 Mar 2009 19:02

ok i have some report on gimptalk about problem to install

(btw in my reply i indicate this as best side to get help for LR).

well i would have check better done before posting here, i just looked in the computers we have around , in all gimp 2.6 is installed in a Gimp-2.6 folder…but thinking better that may be done to limit conflict with a previous Gimp version we need to run at best some animation plugins

i am downloading again last gimp installer to check better