During installation I told it to install everything. Apparently something is missing. When I did this, I had not changed anyting in the installation, and I was running as root from root's home directory. # gimp Can't locate Gimp.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/dust line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/dust line 9. This message repeated LOTS of times before actually starting gimp.
this has been fixed in Rawhide.