Install Gimp

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GIMP

Developer(s)	The GIMP Development Team
Initial release	January 1996
Written in	C (GTK+)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilingual
Development status	Active
Type	Raster graphics editor
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.gimp.org

This is a guide on how to compile and install Gimp from source.

The current version is 2.7.1, which enables the highly desired "Single-window mode".

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Preparation 2.1 Got root? 2.2 Setting variables 2.3 Installing dependencies 3 Installing glib (Only needed for Ubuntu 9.04) 3.1 Getting glib source 3.2 Configuring and compiling glib 4 Installing GTK (Only needed for Ubuntu 9.04) 4.1 Getting GTK source 4.2 Configuring and compiling GTK 5 Installing BABL 5.1 Getting BABL source 5.2 Configuring and compiling BABL 6 Installing GEGL 6.1 Getting GEGL source 6.2 Configuring and compiling GEGL 7 Installing GIMP 7.1 Getting GIMP source 7.2 Configuring and compiling GIMP 7.3 Launch GIMP 8 Thanks

The new single-window interface of GIMP

1 Introduction

According to Wikipedia:

GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. Primarily, GIMP is used as a tool for photo manipulations, such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.

The product vision for GIMP is to become a high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. One point in GIMPs product vision would see GIMP used for the development of cutting-edge image-processing algorithms.

2 Preparation

2.1 Got root?

We need root access to compile and install Gimp. So, open up the terminal and type:

sudo -s

2.2 Setting variables

Important! These variables have to be set and are required for all further commands. If you close the terminal window, you have to give the 3 export commands again.

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gimp-2.7/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib

2.3 Installing dependencies

The following packages are needed to compile gimp

apt-get build-dep gimp
aptitude install checkinstall git-core libtool libopenexr-dev libopenraw-dev libspiro-dev ruby

3 Installing glib (Only needed for Ubuntu 9.04)

3.1 Getting glib source

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.22/glib-2.22.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf glib-2.22.2.tar.bz2

3.2 Configuring and compiling glib

cd /usr/local/src/glib-2.22.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

4 Installing GTK (Only needed for Ubuntu 9.04)

4.1 Getting GTK source

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.18/gtk+-2.18.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf gtk+-2.18.2.tar.bz2

4.2 Configuring and compiling GTK

cd /usr/local/src/gtk+-2.18.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

5 Installing BABL

5.1 Getting BABL source

cd /usr/local/src
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/babl

5.2 Configuring and compiling BABL

cd /usr/local/src/babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

6 Installing GEGL

6.1 Getting GEGL source

cd /usr/local/src
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gegl

6.2 Configuring and compiling GEGL

cd /usr/local/src/gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

7 Installing GIMP

7.1 Getting GIMP source

cd /usr/local/src
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gimp

7.2 Configuring and compiling GIMP

cd /usr/local/src/gimp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

7.3 Launch GIMP

Launch GIMP with:

/opt/gimp-2.7/bin/gimp-2.7

8 Thanks

This guide was originally posted on Gimpusers, created by redforce.