[Sussex] The gimp and associated problems (under Kubuntu 6.06)

[John D.]

Hi list,

Trying to learn how to use the gimp properly (it's not very intuitive is it!).

So, I want to install some plugins for additional functionality, and have been 
to the gimp registry to get as many plugins as are available for the gimp 2.2 
that is installed by the Kubuntu.

Now, if the plugin is a script (with .scm file extension) I just copy it to 
the scripts folder in my gimp profile - no problem. Likewise if the script is 
perl or python (they go in the plugins folder).

My problem seems to be that I need to get the "gimptool". As the book 
explains, it sometimes comes as a stand alone package, sometimes it's part of 
the development package(s).

So if I try to libgimp2.0-dev, I'm getting this lot as a reply

"me at mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  libgimp2.0-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.4.4-1) but it is not going to 
be installed
E: Broken packages
me at mypc:~$"

and correspondingly, I then get told this, when I try to install the 
libgtk2.0-dev
"libgtk2.0-dev:
 Depends: libpango1.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libcairo2-dev but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libxfixes-dev but it is not going to be installed".

I suspect that I'm being thick and am missing something here. As far as I 
know, these packages are supposed to be in the repositories that I have got 
set in my sources.list

could someone point me in the right direction to sort this out?

regards

John D.

p.s. Oh and the problem is further exacerbated by the fact that although I've 
installed the scripts into my gimp install, the other plugins for it have 
arrived in the form of tar.gz and tar.bz2 files, and if I try to install them 
(the plasma plugin for example), I can extract the file(s) and when I follow 
the instructions in the README, go to the directory created by the extraction 
of the tar.gz, and then run make install, I get about 3 pages of errors - the 
earliest of which seem to refer to the installer looking for the gimptool.