Installing GIMPshop and fighting with Synaptic

[Daniel Robitaille]

>     How does it get decided what applications are available in the
> Ubuntu repositories anyway? I mean, is there any way to get Gimpshop to
> become available through Synaptic? All sorts of weird (and useless in my
> view) applications are available, so how does one application get in and
> one not?

For the large majority of the applications, they are in Ubuntu because
Debian has them as well.  But MOTU can add packages to Ubuntu.  And
they have a wiki page with all the current requests:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/Candidates

Gimpshop is already in the list.


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Daniel Robitaille