On an old PC, I have Lubuntu 12.10. during GIMP installation, the newest version was installed (ver. 2.8), but I think its a little heavy for an old machine like mine with a poor Intel Celeron CPU (Ram 1GB, VGA 128)
How can I go back to GIMP 2.6?
On an old PC, I have Lubuntu 12.10. during GIMP installation, the newest version was installed (ver. 2.8), but I think its a little heavy for an old machine like mine with a poor Intel Celeron CPU (Ram 1GB, VGA 128)
How can I go back to GIMP 2.6?
Try doing the forward port approach (works for more packages than just Gimp):
Add the precise
main repositories to your system.
Create a file like /etc/apt/sources.list.d/precise-for-gimp.list
containing
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
Replace the mirror (here nl.archive.ubuntu.com
) with the one you would like to use.
Add a file with the appropriate pinning to allow downgrading of a certain set of packages, in e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/10-pin-gimp-to-precise
:
Package: *gimp*
Pin: release a=precise-security
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *gimp*
Pin: release a=precise-updates
Pin-Priority: 1001
Run sudo apt-get update
Run sudo apt-get -s install gimp
(-s
to simulate only)
Check whether the output makes sense. If not, and it can't manage to satisfy the dependencies, then consider reverting the actions above. If it does work, then actually run the actions to be performed by re-running the previous command without the -s
option.
This approach will provide you best flexibility and security-update support, as it's just using the repositories rather than a specific version. It may be a PITA to set up, though.
saucy
instead of precise
Dec 27, 2013 at 13:23
precise
is the source distribution in this example, so if you're running saucy
, but you like a package version from quantal
, use quantal
here. Note it won't work always due to dependencies.
Dec 27, 2013 at 13:57
precise
is indeed the latest I can use if I want 2.6.
Dec 27, 2013 at 14:09
You can also simply download gimp 2.6 from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/ and run
tar xvfz gimp-2.6.x.tar.gz # unpack the sources
cd gimp-2.6.x # change to the toplevel directory
./configure # run the `configure' script
make # build GIMP
make install # install GIMP
You can change the v2.6 in the url to change the version.
To first uninstall gimp:
sudo apt-get remove gimp
make install
actions did something you didn't quite like.
Jan 16, 2013 at 16:51
./configure
step here will not run until you forward ported libgegl as well, for example. It's not an easy task to change versions of applications due to the high level of integration. This is intentional and how Ubuntu works. Consider sticking to 12.04 on an older PC.
Jan 17, 2013 at 20:50
Try this (it worked for me):
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get install gimp