Updating GIMP in Linux

[doobs]

Greetings,

New forum member here.

I've been using GIMP, mostly on Windows and at work, for a number of years and am a faithful disciple.

My profession life ended on May 5th with my retirement and I'm now officially a "free man" and old fart....

We are in the process of building a new retirement home, so my focus of late is trying new things computer wise, with one of those things being Linux.

After some looking around, Elementary OS was chosen (don't ask me why, I couldn't tell you) and It's been an interesting experience for this old man to wrap his head around after so many years of Windows-dom. EOS is an Ubuntu variant BTW.

It took some doing, but I've gotten EOS where I wanted.  One of the interesting things I came across was the myriad of ways to install applications.

EOS is fond of flatpaks so initially I installed flatpak applications.  Some of the other applications were snap packages, some where apt packages and a couple were just executables.

What I found was this unholy mixture of install types lead to some very interesting file access issues. Some flatpaks would see folders while the snap packages wouldn't, etc, etc, etc.

After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, I decided to throw flatpaks and snap packages to the curb and just install stuff via good old apt install.

This has solved my file access issues, but I'm finding now that GIMP is stuck on v2.10.30 vs the latest v2.10.34.

Is there any way to update my install without going to a flatpak?

Thank you!

chris

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LOL,

I should have read a little further...

https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Gimp-2...untu-22-04

chris

[PixLab]

OK you got a good start understanding snap and flatpak thing/sh.t with their problem... (I know some don't agree with me about flatpak )

You forgot or miss appImage (another way to have your application), which is "multidistro" (once downloaded, just a right click on it > Properties > a window opens go to the tab "Permission > Check the box "Allow executing file as a program" and you're done, double click to start it)

In all case welcome to Linux and freedom to the way you chose to install your things

Yes there is a way to install via PPA (AKA sudo apt install gimp)

There is a PPA from Panda Jim (than a lot of us are using), you need to instal its repo first > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+...buntu/gimp
Roughly in terminal just input

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp

        sudo apt update

        sudo apt install gimp

Then you will have the latest GIMP (actually 2.10.34)
For python support in GIMP I would recommend the appimage from Tas_mania (it's really a life saver to not enter in complex install about python 2.7),
it is a GIMP launcher with python support (after you've installed GIMP), here > https://github.com/TasMania17/Gimp-Appim...s/releases (it's an appimage, read above how to make them "active" )

for G'MIC it's here > https://gmic.eu (ZE big plugin but VERY useful for GIMP), maybe I forgot few more important plugin)

And you should be good to go

[rich2005]

Just to add to above

Quote:This has solved my file access issues, but I'm finding now that GIMP is stuck on v2.10.30 vs the latest v2.10.34.

That looks like EOS 7 which is based on ubuntu jammy (22.04), so even if EOS does not accept the PPA you can still download the individual .deb packages and install with dpkg

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+.../+packages

Might be a bit of work involved getting the gimp + gegl + babl packages. No gimp-python package for jammy but the tasmania appimage add-on works for me. Using kubuntu 22.04 (jammy)

[doobs]

Thanks all.

Good info. Linux has been.... interesting thusfar.

Truth be told, if I knew then what I know now about EOS, I most likely would have chosen a different distro.

I used the process suggested by PixLab and thusfar, all is well.

The plus (or minus) of my experience with GIMP is that I've not had the luxury of using any 3rd party add-ins. Our network at work was a protected enclave and what came and went was very tightly controlled.

As I explore into the new world of options, that might change

cheers

chris

[rich2005]

(08-01-2023, 12:22 PM)doobs Wrote: Truth be told, if I knew then what I know now about EOS, I most likely would have chosen a different distro.

i should have looked this up earlier: For using an ubuntu PPA

quote ...Some Ubuntu derivatives also do not allow PPAs (by default) and Elementary OS is among those that do not.

But there is hope, this article https://linux-tips.us/enable-ppas-in-elementary-os/