Quote:But from now on, he will always depend on you for its G'MIC... Don't get me wrong, what you do is EXTREMELY USEFUL, and so nice!
Thank you for the compliment (I think), however unless you write the code and compile it you will always depend on someone else - even you depend on Gimp developers, gmic developers, Ofnuts for his plugins...
Lets get back to the original question which was: (I will try and keep remarks concise)
Quote:Does a default 20.04 support the latest of GIMP ? I am using an App image suggested through this forum
...and the answer is yes, but the Appimage will eventually lag behind.
Why an appimage ?
Self contained and at the time more up-to-date than alternatives. The default Gimp in 'focal' is 2.10.18. The Appimage also overcomes some of the 'sandboxed' issues with snap or flatpak versions.
Gmic and Appimage
- Installing the deb package from gmic.eu without a regular Gimp installed results in a broken package. It is a dynamic version. Not going to work with the Appimage. Not recommended. https://i.imgur.com/eQt2m7b.jpg
- There is a gmic package in the focal repo, gmic 2.4. Old, pulls in a mountain of dependencies, and still not going to work with an appimage. https://i.imgur.com/ZgzSxrB.jpg
What is the future for the Appimage.
Sadly it looks like end-of-life for the Appimage, unless someone takes over. It has happened before when the otto-kesselgulasch PPA died and Panda Jim eventually replaced it. It was big gap for regular users filled by the Appimage. There is also a gmic package in the ubuntuhandbook1 PPA but it is gmic 2.9.4 - still not the latest.
The future after Gimp 2.10.24 and the gmic plugin
- Use the ubuntuhandbook1 PPA Gimp 2.10.x with the gmic.eu zip package. That is a static version, put it in your user profile. Disadvantage no gimp-python packages in the PPA.
- Use the flatpak Gimp version. No need to install python2, for python plugins, it is bundled with the flatpak.
There is a bespoke flatpak gmic. Last time I checked not very up-to-date, Ask the developers. https://i.imgur.com/lwQ38Kd.jpg