RemoveBG, how to install it?

[rich2005]

Intelligent select - Sometimes use it, kubuntu 24.04 / Gimp 2.10.38 appimage with python. Python 2.7 needed for the plugin.

Had to do a little checking, It comes from here: https://gitlab.com/pgicquel1/iselect-gimp-plugin quite a big download 127 MB.

There is an installation script which pulls in python-pip & virtualenv - it is 3 years old - does it still work ? I do not know.

Not 100%, it does struggle with canvas boundaries for example, but can be a starting point, use the selection for a layer mask.

quick 30 second demo. https://i.imgur.com/RYMJLFm.mp4

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(04-20-2025, 09:47 AM)rich2005 Wrote: quick 30 second demo. https://i.imgur.com/RYMJLFm.mp4

That looks promising, Rich.  I'm definitely going to give it a try and will check back in later today or Monday and let you know how it went.

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(04-20-2025, 09:47 AM)rich2005 Wrote: There is an installation script which pulls in python-pip & virtualenv - it is 3 years old - does it still work ?  I do not know.

As much as I'd like to have this, for now, I believe I'll pass.  I started running the installation script and the first thing it wanted me to do was to update the kernel.  That's seems a little much for a plugin.  Maybe I'm being overly cautious but, right now it doesn't seem worth the hassle.

Thanks for the assistance anyway, Rich.

[rich2005]

Guessing you have not updated your Mint installation for a while

It is something that irritates me, this kubuntu 24.04 and it seems every week there is a (security) update that involves downloading the linux kernel at around a few hundred MB. It might only be a couple of lines of code that were fixed, but you still get the whole kernel.

The setup script does start off
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Which explains it. You are not missing much, plenty of other ways in Gimp.

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(04-21-2025, 09:11 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Guessing you have not updated your Mint installation for a while  

It is something that irritates me, this kubuntu 24.04 and it seems every week there is a (security) update that involves downloading the linux kernel at around a few hundred MB.  It might only be a couple of lines of code that were fixed, but you still get the whole kernel.

The setup script does start off
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Which explains it.   You are not missing much, plenty of other ways in Gimp.

I will usually update it once, maybe twice, after a release and that's pretty much it.  Like you say, kernel updates seem so often nowadays and it gets repetitive quickly.  After a while, you can get trapped in a continual pattern of updates that never end.

When I first started using Linux Mint, back in 2009, the conventional wisdom repeated ad-nauseam on their own help site was to not update the kernel, whatsoever, if everything worked fine.  Now that advice has flipped to the opposite extreme with the help board gurus almost demanding that you update your kernel immediately upon release of each new kernel or risk  chaos and flirt with disaster.