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Sorry if I still am not clear since I have not been following the whole thread. Didn't you say you compiled Gimp 1.3.18 via configure, make, then checkinstall? If that is correct, you should have the files the "devel" package would have installed, had the package been done by SuSE. There is nothing more to install for Gimp, only the plug-ins you might want. The development headers, etc., the plug-ins would need from Gimp are there already. Some files might be a pre-requisite for the compile that would have been installed by installing a SuSE packaged devel package, but by installing via configure, make, and checkinstall, those files are there and you should be able to compile your plug-ins. HTH.
No you were clear the first time. I did not know that the development as well as the program itself were all in the rpm made by checkinstall. What I was trying to get at is building a set of rpms like SuSE's so I could install the Gimp package on my wife's machine. She does not need the libs so I was going to do seperate rpms for Gimp. One with the program and another with the devel libs in it. Sorry if I did not explain clearly enough. Thanks again for the explanation.