This is a binary release of the GIMP v0.54 compiled for Linux a.out. The Motif library is statically linked, but the rest of the libraries are dynamically linked. This cuts down dramatically on the executable size and shouldn't cause many problems as most linux systems have the same file system structure. The one difficulty might be the linking of X11 libraries. On my system, these reside in /usr/X11R6/lib. On some systems this path may be /usr/X11/lib or /usr/X386/lib. I think you should be able to simply create a symbolic link to fix the problem. For example, you might do: ln -s /usr/X386 /usr/X11R6 Note: You must be root to do this! It is a known bug that the tearoff menus do not work with this executable. The gimp will search in the diretory "/usr/local/lib/gimp" for both a ".gimprc" file and a "gimprc" file. You can place a standard gimprc file in that location and any user will be able to use the gimp without having to have a gimprc file in their home directory. Peter Mattis