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I can’t seem to install the GIMP.

I have tried installing it a million times and It never works. (It always stops working when the fonts start to load.) So, I was wondering if anybody could give me instructions on how to install it, along with links to what I should install and in what order to install them. (A link to a in-depth tutorial would be OK too.) GTK and the GIMP are no longer on my computer and my OS is Windows Vista.

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jimtc offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (8 hours, 19 minutes after post)

Download GIMP here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp…

If you encounter problems, it helps if you post the error messages here.

For more information:
http://www.gimp.org/windows/

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jimtc offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (8 hours, 20 minutes after post)

Here are some GIMP tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

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jimtc offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (8 hours, 23 minutes after post)

Also, some video tutorials:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q…

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mandyperez offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (9 hours, 29 minutes after post)

Thanks but it still doesn’t work. :-( It stops working when the fonts begin to load. I don’t think the gimp will ever work unless I hire someone to do it for me. I have photoshop but still, i really wanted it. :-(

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jimtc offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (11 hours, 54 minutes after post)

If by “stops working” you mean “programs hangs, with 100% CPU usage”, then maybe you have too many fonts — as in this post: http://forums.poweruser.tv/122957
In that case, it may take a while to load but it will load, and the next time it will be much faster.

Otherwise, I have no idea.

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jackkessler0 offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

It may be yet another Vista incompatibility…

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bo_fra offline Verified User (2 months, 2 weeks) Shouts: 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

gimp does stall, but continues, cause of many plugins, brushes and system fonts, leave loading for a minute, and it should continue, go grab a coffee, ….waits…

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