Information about the package, gimp, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gimp package is designed for, GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Package Name:
gimp
Summary:
GNU Image Manipulation Program
URL:
Description:
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.6.9
Release:
9.el6
Size:
12 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the gimp package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gimp
This command will install gimp on the server.
yum remove gimp
This command will un-install gimp on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gimp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gimp
This command will un-install gimp on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove gimp when using the -y flag.
yum update gimp
This command will update gimp to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gimp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gimp
This command will update gimp to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove gimp when using the -y flag.
yum info gimp
This command will show you core information about the gimp package.
yum deplist gimp
This command will show you the dependencies for gimp. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update gimp
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gimp. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.