11-13-2023, 09:24 PM
I hacked the latest Gimp snap and I have python plug-ins working but no console.
For anyone interested -
Copied the snap file into a user folder. You can also download it with
snap download gimp
sudo chown -R user:user ./gimp_405.snap
sudo unsquashfs ././gimp_405.snap
Now you can freely edit files under ./squashfs-root
repack with
snap pack ./squashfs-root ./
this puts a new snap in the same folder. because it's unsigned it can only be installed with the 'dangerous' flag.
sudo snap install --dangerous ./gimp_2.10.34_amd64.snap
Message - It appears that you are using GIMP for the first time. GIMP will now create a folder named ~/snap/gimp/x1/.config/GIMP/2.10' and copy some files to it.
putting plugin-ins here helped me see error messages with
gimp --verbose
sudo snap remove gimp
Thoughts
Ubuntu are using appimages built with the old RockRidge file system to construct new OS's. I think this upends the Unix file structure by creating little unix file systems inside other unix file systems. The Gimp snap is well over 1.2 gb in size. Why does it have to contain so many system files? Script-based packaging can make huge files because all the files have dependencies. Eventually Ubuntu snaps will be dependent on other snaps or each snap will carry most of the system files.
I think the word 'snap' is actually 'secure appimage'. Possibly Ubuntu is trying to be faster than MXLinux which is pretty fast :
wonder what Debian makes of all this
For anyone interested -
Copied the snap file into a user folder. You can also download it with
snap download gimp
sudo chown -R user:user ./gimp_405.snap
sudo unsquashfs ././gimp_405.snap
Now you can freely edit files under ./squashfs-root
repack with
snap pack ./squashfs-root ./
this puts a new snap in the same folder. because it's unsigned it can only be installed with the 'dangerous' flag.
sudo snap install --dangerous ./gimp_2.10.34_amd64.snap
Message - It appears that you are using GIMP for the first time. GIMP will now create a folder named ~/snap/gimp/x1/.config/GIMP/2.10' and copy some files to it.
putting plugin-ins here helped me see error messages with
gimp --verbose
sudo snap remove gimp
Thoughts
Ubuntu are using appimages built with the old RockRidge file system to construct new OS's. I think this upends the Unix file structure by creating little unix file systems inside other unix file systems. The Gimp snap is well over 1.2 gb in size. Why does it have to contain so many system files? Script-based packaging can make huge files because all the files have dependencies. Eventually Ubuntu snaps will be dependent on other snaps or each snap will carry most of the system files.
I think the word 'snap' is actually 'secure appimage'. Possibly Ubuntu is trying to be faster than MXLinux which is pretty fast :
wonder what Debian makes of all this