22.04 kills AppImages

[rich2005]

This using Ubuntu 22.04 desktop (in a VM) A minimal installation.

To run an appimage install the deprecated version of fuse

Code:

sudo apt install fuse

That gets the Gimp 2.10.xx appimage to run, gimp-python works but the built-in gmic_gimp_qt plugin crashes.

One reason for using an appimage was as a means to upgrade Gimp, for Ubuntu 22.04 the version is Gimp 2.10.30 currently the latest.

You can easily install Gimp 

Code:

sudo apt install gimp

That gets a regular working Gimp 2.10.30 but that comes without python support.  There is a utility to add python to Gimp. see: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Python...6#pid29066   It is an appimage and needs that fuse installation. It also need python2 installed

Code:

sudo apt install python2

Then run that launcher to open Gimp and add python support.

For the popular gmic_gimp_qt plugin, a more regular installation. Get the zip from http://www.gmic.eu Unzip into the Gimp plugins folder. There are QT5 dependencies, a regular ubuntu installation probably needs

Code:

sudo apt install libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 fftw3

A video of all that, 6 minutes duration https://youtu.be/uNgQJCiGhOY