OK, apparently I was not as far as I thought I was.
I do the whole;
./configure
make
make install
Everything runs and then finishes with no errors, but nothing installs.
I am trying to install gmp 4.2.4
I think you mean 2.4.4
Why not just install it from the repos? I think the latest version in the repos is 2.4.5
It’s much faster and easier than trying to compile it from scratch.
To install from the repos simply go to YaST->Install Software and search for gimp. Check it off, and click apply and you’re done 
Also, you can simply type
zypper in gimp
as root and gimp will be installed.
In order to compile directly from source, you must have all the build dependencies, gcc and make installed, but I assume you’ve installed that because you said you received no errors 
Hope it helps
Hi
What wrong with the version that comes with openSUSE 11 4.2.2? It only
installs the libraries, in your case it would be /usr/local/lib. I’m
guessing you ran it all as root user. You can build everything you need
as your user, then use sudo to run make install.
If you look at the INSTALL file, it does say to run make check 
openSUSE uses the following convention for configuring gmp;
../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--build=i586-suse-linux --disable-mpfr --enable-cxx
make
make check
sudo make install
Note in my case --build is for the 32bit version, 64bit would be
x86_64-suse-linux.
I suggest you look at running make uninstall and then selecting your
programs via YaST.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Hi
There is gmp and gimp two different programs…
@OP, which program is it…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
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Thank you for all the feedback guys. I really appreciate it.
I understand there are much better/ quicker ways to do it, but I am still confused as to why the way I was doing it did not install it?
Any advice or ways to check to see if it was really installed or why it didn’t?