I understand that there is a new version of the GIMP available, although it appears that the only way of doing this is by compiling from source :P
Is there another way of getting it, or if I have to compile can I do that through the terminal or better still; a GUI?
You can do this through the Terminal:
Uninstall GIMP
sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry
Add the following PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
Reinstall the latest GIMP
sudo apt-get install gimp
Steps 1 and 3 are the same. In step 2, use the following PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp
apt-get autoremove does not remove configuration files without specifying --purge)
sudo apt-get install gimp doesn't install latest (v2.10.12) but v2.8.22 (released on 8 May 2017)?
To install the latest stable version of GIMP as a snap package in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:
sudo snap install gimp
Notes
If you need an incrementally newer version than the latest stable version (e.g. GIMP 2.10.2 instead of GIMP 2.10.0) install it from the edge channel.
sudo snap install gimp --channel=edge
If you need GIMP to have full access to external media (such as USB flash drive, SD/MicroSD card, additional mounted hard drive and so on), run the following command:
sudo snap connect gimp:removable-media
$ sudo snap connect gimp:removable-media $ snap connections gimp Interface Plug Slot Notes browser-support gimp:browser-support :browser-support - content[gnome-3-38-2004] gimp:gnome-3-38-2004 gnome-3-38-2004:gnome-3-38-2004 - content[gtk-2-engines] gimp:gtk-2-engines gtk2-common-themes:gtk-2-engines - content[gtk-3-themes] gimp:gtk-3-themes gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes - content[icon-themes] gimp:icon-themes gtk-common-themes:icon-themes - content[sound-themes] gimp:sound-themes gtk-common-themes:sound-themes - cups-control gimp:cups-control - - dbus - gimp:dbus-gimp - desktop gimp:desktop :desktop - desktop-legacy gimp:desktop-legacy :desktop-legacy - gsettings gimp:gsettings :gsettings - home gimp:home :home - network gimp:network :network - opengl gimp:opengl :opengl - removable-media gimp:removable-media :removable-media manual unity7 gimp:unity7 :unity7 - wayland gimp:wayland :wayland - x11 gimp:x11 :x11 -
:removable-media plug/connector)? Is it classic Snap? Its extremely important for photographs with their flash cards.
Currently there is no method to install Gimp 2.8 on any version below 12.04.
In terms of is it possible ...
Unlikely for the following reason:
The dependencies of the latest versions of Gimp require a-lot of the latest underlying libraries that you will not find by default in any version below 12.04. Thus, you will need to recompile and rewrite portions of the code to get it to compile. The further away you get from 12.04, the larger the change required.
A maintainer of the Gimp package (ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn) mentions in the description that it needs the latest Gnome-3 PPA as well as some other testing libraries. Both of these will not install on gnome-2 environments (below 11.10). Looking at the dependency lists for 12.04 version of Gimp, these are also not available in 11.10.
Will it ever be available in a PPA for versions below 12.04? Its probably safe to say unlikely unless there is an enterprising developer out there who wishes to port this to this.
Until then, UbuntuForums has an interesting thread on how to compile from source.
Thus - if you definitely want Gimp 2.8 - look to installing 12.04 + one of its many desktop environments.
prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8 option when compiling all dependencies. This will isolate GIMP and all of it's friends in a place where the other applications won't find it.
Fortunatelly the availability of stable GIMP 2.8 also made gimp plugin registry (with the famous save for web plugin) easy to install.
Via http://www.webupd8.org/ :
GIMP 2.8 stable installation
If you're upgrading from an older GIMP version please visit the link and pay attention to the 'dist-upgrade' command http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/gimp-28-stable-finally-available-for.html (also if you want to revert to GIMP 2.6.x)
If you're just installing GIMP for the first time on your current system install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
GIMP Plugin Registry for GIMP 2.8 installation
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-gimp-plugin-registry-for-gimp.html
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
Let us support this project.
I am able to download gimp2.9 and open a file rejected by earlier version of Gimp. And I am still using ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
This is really a broken case with Linux systems because you need to upgrade your entire system just to be able to run the latest apps. I hope this will be solved soon and I hope we support projects like the above.
I am happy with my ubuntu 10.04 and i've have lots of configs here and development files... may have to way until 2016 to upgrade lol!
Add the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp and several packages will be updated/installed from it, nost notably Gimp itself, and gimp-plugin-registry that contains several useful plugins (resynthesize, etc...) that are much easier to install that way. If youa re n <=17.04, this PPA will give you Gimp 2.8.22.
Both methods have their restrictions, in particular it can be difficult to add your favorite compiled plugins (script-fu and python plugins are usually OK).
To get GIMP 2.8 on Lucid 10.04.4 have a look at this:
apt install gimp
Quite easy now.
Here is the flatpak way of installing GIMP:
flatpak install flathub org.gimp.GIMP
Once installed you can run GIMP by using this command:
flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP
For me, GIMP would not run as a regular user because of permission errors. You can find the errors by running GIMP in terminal. The fix:
chmod 755 -R ~/.local/share/flatpak/
chmod 777 -R ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/
(gimp-2.10:2): IBUS-WARNING **: 11:23:31.019: The owner of /home/user123/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/ibus/bus is not user123!
The fix:
chown $USER ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/ibus/bus
This changes the owner of the bus directory. $USER in linux is the current logged in user (try echo $USER and see what you get).
In Ubuntu 16.10, you can easily install it from the terminal with the following command:
sudo apt install gimp
To upgrade an existing install of gimp, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt update && apt upgrade -y
If you would like to uninstall gimp but retain settings (if you plan on reinstalling some other time, for example), run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt remove gimp
If you would like to uninstall gimp and remove settings, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt purge gimp
this PPA works for me and it will give you last version available Note: this may get version still in development too
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge
also you can go for the other steps down here
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp -y
this will display the current version of gimp
sudo gimp --version
