(03-30-2018, 08:38 PM)mholder Wrote: It says:
The program 'gimp' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install gimp
My mistake was removing 2.8 from the software manager before trying the 2.10 ppa. THen I tried to purge the 2.10 ppa. I should not have done that. Now I cannot re-install Gimp via the software manager.
And I must stop messing around now. I have screwed up this Linux stuff so badly in the past that I needed to totally re-install the OS. This has happened so many times I fear doing anything more. I still have rich2005's 2.9.9 and I guess I just have to wait.
Ok. I got 2.8 back by getting dependencies and stuff (and Gimp 2.8)on the Synaptic Packing Manager, and now I am not touching anything.
Hopefully sometime in this decade the Software manager will be updated and I can try out layer group masks. OR better yet, maybe someday I will find a tutorial for compiling Gimp that was written by a normal person and makes sense.