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496 APPENDIX C INSTALLING THE GIMP ON MAC WHAT IS THIS X11 THING? The X Window System has been around for ages. Apple calls it X11 but you may also have heard of X11R6, Xfree86, X-windows, the X Window System, or even just X. The last is particularly confusing for Mac users since Apple s current OS is called, well . . . it s called ten, but it looks like X! X is basically the graphical part of most Linux and Unix distributions. It plays the same role on these machines that Quartz and Aqua play on OS X: it handles graphics, windows, and the input from the keyboard and mouse. Meanwhile, the heart of the operating system, called the kernel (in the OS X case, a combina- tion of the Mach and FreeBSD Unix systems, called Darwin) handles non-graphical tasks such as the network and the file system. Apple offers X for Mac users who would like to take advantage of the enormous collection of Linux, Unix, and GNU programs designed for it. The GIMP is one of those programs. If You Need to Install X11 If you have system disks with X11 on them, double-click on the icon and you ll be presented with an installer. If you downloaded it, you ll find X11User.dmg in your download folder, which you can double-click; it will expand into a disk image. Inside, you ll find an icon called X11User.pkg. Double-click that and you ll be presented with a standard OS X installer. From there on it s the usual sequence: agree to the license, choose a place to install, click a few times, and you re done. No further action should be required regarding X11 for you to run Gimp.app. If X11 is not already running when you start GIMP, the launcher will take care of that for you. Note You may have noticed references to Gimp.app, GIMP, and the GIMP. Why the different usages? The authors of the GIMP tend to capitalize it because it s an acronym for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Sometimes they call it the GIMP, and sometimes just GIMP. When it was ported to Mac OS X, the capitalization was not used. Also in keeping with typical OS X style, the packaged program was called Gimp.app which means Mac people are likely to see Gimp, GIMP, The GIMP, and Gimp.app used interchangeably. Installing Gimp.app Double-clicking on the Gimp-[version].dmg in your download folder will expand a disk image called, appropriately, Gimp. Inside you ll find a collection of files including one named Gimp. At this point, you can simply drag the icon labeled Gimp into your Applications folder (or wherever you like to keep your downloaded programs). You ll also note the Get X11 for OS X 10.[version]. This did not work on my copy; I don t suggest counting on it. LICENSE.txt will have a copy of the GNU General Public License, which you are not required to read just to use the program. It s interesting, but you re free to skip it. It won t be on the test. The README.txt file will have very up-to-date information about the version you just downloaded. You ll find longer and more specific installation instructions tailored to that version. There are also some comments about the people who made this program for you.
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