Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/11/14/puppylinux-gimpgraphics/

I recently installed Puppy Linux on a laptop, and now not content with that epic victory of trial and error over open source software, I want to actually install a program onto my newly functioning machine.

OK so I decided to try and install GIMP on the Puppy Linux machine, and I found a version of GIMP that seemed to suit my needs. PuppyLinux: GimpGraphics. Uppermost in my mind was the hope that it wouldn’t turn out to be too hard.

Of course it turned out to be more difficult than I had hoped with page after page leading me to zip files that wouldn’t open. But this GIMP link seemed to be more useful. This page has a few versions to download in the Puppy Linux .pet format, and I chose the smaller version without help file because I always Google for help anyway. And…

It worked, it worked, it worked. But I did have this problem, where I couldn’t find Gimp once it was installed, but the advice here helped me sort it. It was working, but with an ugly default desktop logo. So I found a copy of the GIMP icon file to drop into the box Puppy Linux provides if you click on the old ugly icon.

The screenshot that you can see at the top of this post is also the first thing created on the unlucky virus infected laptop since it was brought back to life with Puppy LINUX.

With luck there will be a lot more to come, especially after I install Open Office. I just have to find a .pet file and everything should go pretty smoothly from there.

I wonder if Puppy Linux has a version of Live Writer and ActiveSync as well.