22.04 kills AppImages

[meetdilip]

Hi, I had a very comfortable setup with GIMP 2.10.25 AppImage

Now that I upgraded to 22.04, AppImages are not working at all.

During the upgrade, even my .deb based Inkscape was also uninstalled. Now I have GIMP and Inkscape from the Store.

Not sure how to add G'MIC and other additions to GIMP. Any help will be great. Thanks.

[rich2005]

There is/was an issue with appimages using fuse2 which is now deprecated, 'buntu 22.04 now comes with fuse3. If you run the Gimp appimage in a terminal does it give an error about fuse ?
error loading libfuse.so.2 & appimages require fuse to run screenshot here http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19884#p272777

I also thinking about upping my old kubuntu 18.04 laptop to 22.04 ..but it is so productive and everything works..that I am running a kubuntu 22.04 in a VM to find the snags. The Gimp 2.10.25 appimage is working there.

When it comes to Ubuntu store do you know if you got a Snap version ? That will come without python support. Same with the regular Gimp from the repo. That is Gimp 2.10.30 but again no python support.

Let me know if you get that fuse message? If you do, you could try installing fuse, that will remove fuse3 (might break something else)

Code:

sudo apt install fuse

I will dig out a latest ubuntu desktop VM and see what is the best way.

edit: Ok revisiting the snags with a Ubuntu 22.04 desktop. Installing fuse will get the appimage working...but...due to the qt version the gimp_gmic_qt plugin no longer works.

[rich2005]

This using Ubuntu 22.04 desktop (in a VM) A minimal installation.

To run an appimage install the deprecated version of fuse

Code:

sudo apt install fuse

That gets the Gimp 2.10.xx appimage to run, gimp-python works but the built-in gmic_gimp_qt plugin crashes.

One reason for using an appimage was as a means to upgrade Gimp, for Ubuntu 22.04 the version is Gimp 2.10.30 currently the latest.

You can easily install Gimp 

Code:

sudo apt install gimp

That gets a regular working Gimp 2.10.30 but that comes without python support.  There is a utility to add python to Gimp. see: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Python...6#pid29066   It is an appimage and needs that fuse installation. It also need python2 installed

Code:

sudo apt install python2

Then run that launcher to open Gimp and add python support.

For the popular gmic_gimp_qt plugin, a more regular installation. Get the zip from http://www.gmic.eu Unzip into the Gimp plugins folder. There are QT5 dependencies, a regular ubuntu installation probably needs

Code:

sudo apt install libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 fftw3

A video of all that, 6 minutes duration https://youtu.be/uNgQJCiGhOY

[meetdilip]

Thanks admin. I will go through this one by one and update.

This is what I have


   

Sadly, in 22.04, when I try open an Image using Blender, Inkscape or GIMP, I do not see a file preview.

[rich2005]

(04-29-2022, 12:13 PM)meetdilip Wrote: Thanks admin. I will go through this one by one and update.

This is what I have

Sadly, in 22.04, when I try open an Image using Blender, Inkscape or GIMP, I do not see a file preview.

That Gimp is from Snapcrafters, so a Snap version. No python, no gmic.   If you want that type of installation a flatpak is  better, comes with python and there is a dedicated flatpak gmic plugin.

However, I would go for a regular Gimp 
For Inkscape not another snap, try the PPA as this: https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-inst...22-04-lts/

Blender I do not know.

[meetdilip]

Thanks. I got used to having GIMP around. So when the AppImage stopped working after upgrade, I installed the first one I could grab, from the store.

[meetdilip]

This command helps. AppImage runs like it was before.

Code:

sudo apt install libfuse2*

Python and GMIC work fine. I did use before that

Code:

sudo apt install python2