Two versions in one OS?

[Zero01]

Without using a VM or using other versions of GIMP (i.e. Partha's etc), is there a way of having both official recent (2.8.22. & 2.10.??) GIMPs on a single operating system. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS at present. Thanks

[nelo]

Yes, use 2.8 from the repos and 2.10 as a flatpak or Appimage.

[rich2005]

The default Gimp for 'buntu 18.04 is Gimp 2.8.22 so if you disable / remove the PPA you can revert to that.

For a parallel Gimp 2.10.14 there is the flatpak, snap and appimage versions. Both flatpak and snap run sandboxed and anything other than basic plugins are a problem. G'mic for example requires QT5 and that is not in the flatpak / snap versions. Other compiled plugins have similar requirements. If it is just a basic Gimp then the flatpak is fine. I used to run my kbuntu that way one time. Details for flatpak installation are on http://www.gimp.org

The appimage is a bit different. https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/
The 2.10.14-with-plugins is quite good, https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-app...4.AppImage 162 MB I have tried it with various plugins and they work ok. I would probebly go for that one. You can run it along side the regular Gimp 2.10 as well, as it uses a separate Gimp profile ~/.config/GIMP.Appimage/2.10/

[Zero01]

OK thanks for the replies.. I installed from the PPA because I could get the latest g'mic (2.80 pre) with it.. I didn't know the default for Ubuntu was 2.8, good to know !
Thanks!

[Ofnuts]

(11-24-2019, 07:51 PM)rich2005 Wrote: The default Gimp for 'buntu 18.04 is Gimp 2.8.22 so if you disable / remove the PPA you can revert to that.

For a parallel Gimp 2.10.14 there is the flatpak, snap and appimage versions.  Both flatpak and snap run sandboxed and anything other than basic plugins are a problem. G'mic for example requires QT5 and that is not in the flatpak / snap versions. Other compiled plugins have similar requirements.  If it is just a basic Gimp then the flatpak is fine. I used to run my kbuntu that way one time. Details for flatpak installation are on http://www.gimp.org

The appimage is a bit different. https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/
The 2.10.14-with-plugins is quite good, https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-app...4.AppImage 162 MB I have tried it with various plugins and they work ok. I would probebly go for that one. You can run it along side the regular Gimp 2.10 as well, as it uses a separate Gimp profile ~/.config/GIMP.Appimage/2.10/

You can have both on the same system and run them sequentially but by default they won't run at the same time, since the detection of a running instance is identical in both versions. So if 2.10 is already running and you start 2.8, the 2.8 instance will see the running instance and exit (after passing it the image to open if there was one).

You can run them in parallel by calling them with --new-instance.