02-12-2021, 09:17 AM
With some luck you can find an "AppImage" or a "flatpack" with Gimp 2.8, but from memory these started to flourish with Gimp 2.10 to compensate for 2.10 install problems, so I don't know if any were made with 2.8.
Otherwise you can recompile from the tarballs (you also need older versions GEGL/BABL). For the sake of it I recompiled a 2.4 a while ago
However, 2.10 fixes a number of issues, adds plenty of fucntionality and is much better overall than 2.8. Since you are a first poster here you could start by listiing the problems you have with 2.10, some may not be totally Gimp's problem (for instance Python support) and the comminity could point to solutions. If you don't move to 2.10 you won't move to 3.0 either and will be stuck on 2.8 forever. I've seen someone recently who wanted to install 2.4 to not break any habits (after eventually replacing his PC that was running WinXP) but I don't envy him.
Otherwise you can recompile from the tarballs (you also need older versions GEGL/BABL). For the sake of it I recompiled a 2.4 a while ago
However, 2.10 fixes a number of issues, adds plenty of fucntionality and is much better overall than 2.8. Since you are a first poster here you could start by listiing the problems you have with 2.10, some may not be totally Gimp's problem (for instance Python support) and the comminity could point to solutions. If you don't move to 2.10 you won't move to 3.0 either and will be stuck on 2.8 forever. I've seen someone recently who wanted to install 2.4 to not break any habits (after eventually replacing his PC that was running WinXP) but I don't envy him.