I am running Ubuntu Linux v8.04. I love Gimp 2.6 on Windows, but am using
only version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu.

How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?

I don't think you are going to be able to do this.

To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 repositories wont hold these.

You can do it by building your own libraries from the sources, but I guess you don't want to do that

So the only way out is to upgrade to 8.10. I understand that you can upgrade 8.04 with 8.10. but I have not tried that.

Or use a live 8.10 (or similiar) CD

Owen

Hi Dave,

Owen wrote:

I am running Ubuntu Linux v8.04. I love Gimp 2.6 on Windows, but am using
only version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu.

How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?

I don't think you are going to be able to do this.

To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 repositories wont hold these.

You can do it by building your own libraries from the sources, but I guess you don't want to do that

As an afterthought to my private email, I think I agree with that. There are simply too many additional libraries to update, not just 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'. I only kept my /home partition from Ubuntu 8.04 and did a complete new install of Ubuntu 8.10.

HTH,

Claus

How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?

I don't think you are going to be able to do this.

To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 repositories wont hold these.

You can do it by building your own libraries from the sources, but I guess you don't want to do that

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

...Akkana

Le Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:16:28 -0800 Akkana Peck écrivait:

(...)

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

Thanks for the link. It worked for me :-)

Regards.

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:16 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:

How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?

I don't think you are going to be able to do this.

To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 repositories wont hold these.

You can do it by building your own libraries from the sources, but I guess you don't want to do that

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

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I mainly work under Fedora 9, which recently upgraded to gimp 2.6.3. But I recently got a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 installed. I believe it is 8.04 LTS.

I'm new to ubuntu, so I wonder if you could enlighten me about its update policy.

If I understand how ubuntu does things, which is highly uncertain, regular releases only receive upgrades to packages for 6 months until the next release, but the LTS releases receive upgrades for packages for three years. Is that correct? If so, can I expect gimp to be upgraded in the near future? I've compiled gimp from source before on several occasions, and the help you provided will make that easier, but I would rather not bother, since the laptop is a secondary machine for me.

Hi Akkana,

Akkana Peck wrote:

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone on the list suggested that it might have to do with my outdated CPU. As a temporary solution, I installed Gimp 2.4.7 from a .deb file (as well as 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'). Could it be that my problems are due to an improper installed babl and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed.

TIA,

Claus

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Hi Akkana,

Akkana Peck wrote:

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone on the list suggested that it might have to do with my outdated CPU. As a temporary solution, I installed Gimp 2.4.7 from a .deb file (as well as 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'). Could it be that my problems are due to an improper installed babl and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed.

Did you install the -dev packages? Failing to do so is the usual cause of such troubles.

David Gowers wrote:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Claus Cyrny wrote:

Hi Akkana,

Akkana Peck wrote:

I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl and there are a couple minor gotchas there.

I have the complete list of packages you'll need here: http://shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html

Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone on the list suggested that it might have to do with my outdated CPU. As a temporary solution, I installed Gimp 2.4.7 from a .deb file (as well as 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'). Could it be that my problems are due to an improper installed babl and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed.

Did you install the -dev packages? Failing to do so is the usual cause of such troubles.

Meanwhile I performed an upgrade to 2.6 via Synaptic (including 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp') and selected 'libbabl-dev' in addition (there's no 'gegl-dev' available among the Ubuntu packages). Still, Gimp crashes, and I am getting the following error message in the shell:

(script-fu:5477): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Illegal instruction

How can I fix this?

TIA,

Claus

Claus Cyrny wrote:

Meanwhile I performed an upgrade to 2.6 via Synaptic (including 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp') and selected 'libbabl-dev' in addition

I selected gegl as well.

Claus

Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone on the list suggested that it might have to do with my outdated CPU. As a temporary solution, I installed Gimp 2.4.7 from a .deb file (as well as 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'). Could it be that my problems are due to an improper installed babl and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed.

TIA,

Claus

Have you found a solution to this? I'm having a similar problem. I upgraded to GIMP 2.6.2 on Hardy (8.04), on a K6 II machine. Binaries and libraries were obtained from getdeb.net (http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gimp), and installed with these directions:

sudo apt-get remove gimp gimp-data

Download and save all five GIMP packages from GetDeb. Double-click on the packages to install them, in this order:

1. libbabl-0.0-0_0.0.22-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 2. libgegl-0.0-0_0.0.18-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 3. libgimp2.0_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 4. gimp-data_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_all.deb 5. gimp_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

2.6.2 seemed to work, until I tried to change brightness or contrast, then it crashed. If the Preview box is unchecked, no crash.

Certainly suspicious that we are both having the problem with K6-II... Hopefully a developer will look into that!

I installed to another 8.04 machine (not K6, is a Celeron 800, works without a problem there)

Note that getdeb.net has 2.6.3 also, but only for Intrepid (8.10).

Thanks!

Mike B. wrote:

Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone on the list suggested that it might have to do with my outdated CPU. As a temporary solution, I installed Gimp 2.4.7
from a .deb file (as well as 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp').

Could it be that my problems are due to an improper installed babl and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed.

TIA,

Claus

Have you found a solution to this? I'm having a similar problem. I upgraded to GIMP 2.6.2 on Hardy (8.04), on a K6 II machine. Binaries and libraries were obtained from getdeb.net (http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gimp), and installed with these directions:

sudo apt-get remove gimp gimp-data

Download and save all five GIMP packages from GetDeb. Double-click on the packages to install them, in this order:

1. libbabl-0.0-0_0.0.22-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 2. libgegl-0.0-0_0.0.18-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 3. libgimp2.0_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 4. gimp-data_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_all.deb 5. gimp_2.6.2-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

2.6.2 seemed to work, until I tried to change brightness or contrast, then it crashed. If the Preview box is unchecked, no crash.

Certainly suspicious that we are both having the problem with K6-II... Hopefully a developer will look into that!

I installed to another 8.04 machine (not K6, is a Celeron 800, works without a problem there)

Note that getdeb.net has 2.6.3 also, but only for Intrepid (8.10).

Thanks!

Is building from source an option?

To Claus, make sure you have the gegl-devel and babl-devel packages installed, unless you want to build those from source as well.

Peace...

Tom

Hi,

you can download the gimp source package from Ubuntu jaunty (which has gimp 2.6.3 packaged) and then use dpkg-buildpackage to build a gimp package for your particular system and Ubuntu distribution. This is often called doing a backport and it if often the easiest way to install a newer version.

Sven

Hi,

you can download the gimp source package from Ubuntu jaunty (which has gimp 2.6.3 packaged) and then use dpkg-buildpackage to build a gimp package for your particular system and Ubuntu distribution. This is often called doing a backport and it if often the easiest way to install a newer version.

Sven

OK, that sounds worth a try! Sure like 2.6, other than the discussed problem...

Do you have time to type a tutorial/instructions for doing that?

Thanks!

I am running Ubuntu Linux v8.04. I love Gimp 2.6 on Windows, but am using only version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu.

How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?

Maybe you are interested in these links: http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2008-10-07/compile-gimp-260-for-ubuntu-804.html http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gimp

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:13 +0100, Richard H. wrote:

Maybe you are interested in these links: http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2008-10-07/compile-gimp-260-for-ubuntu-804.html

But what's described there is way more difficult and error-prone than doing the backport of the Ubuntu Jaunty package as I suggested earlier.

Sven

I've been using gimp under different versions of Fedora Linux for years. I just installed Fedora 14 on a new computer with all the accompanying gimp packages I could think of. I think I included essentially all of them.

But I seem to be having problems finding things.

1. I downloaded the Exposure Blend Plugin. I put it in my personal .gimp-2.6/plug-ins directory. The instructions say I can find it by going to
[Toolbox]/Xtns/Photography/Exposure Blend...

I can't find Xtns in the toolbox. Where should I look for it?

2. I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory. But I can't find it in gimp.

I suppose I'm just being stupid, but I've used pandora before, so this is rather frustrating.

On 2/20/11, Leonard Evens wrote:

2. I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory. But I can't find it in gimp.

Help > Plug-in Browser

Start typing "Pandora" and you'll see where it is

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

I've been using gimp under different versions of Fedora Linux for years.
I just installed Fedora 14 on a new computer with all the accompanying gimp packages I could think of. I think I included essentially all of them.

But I seem to be having problems finding things.

1. I downloaded the Exposure Blend Plugin. I put it in my personal .gimp-2.6/plug-ins directory. The instructions say I can find
it by going to
[Toolbox]/Xtns/Photography/Exposure Blend...

I can't find Xtns in the toolbox. Where should I look for it?

2. I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory. But I can't find it in gimp.

I suppose I'm just being stupid, but I've used pandora before, so this is rather frustrating.

"Extns" haven't been in the Toolbox for years now afaict.

I just had a look at that script and it shows ======================================================== (script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-pandora-combine" _"/Filters/Combine")

========================================================

So did you look Image->Filters->Combine?

On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 19:08 -0600, Leonard Evens wrote:

I've been using gimp under different versions of Fedora Linux for years. I just installed Fedora 14 on a new computer with all the accompanying gimp packages I could think of. I think I included essentially all of them.

But I seem to be having problems finding things.

1. I downloaded the Exposure Blend Plugin. I put it in my personal .gimp-2.6/plug-ins directory. The instructions say I can find it by going to
[Toolbox]/Xtns/Photography/Exposure Blend...

I can't find Xtns in the toolbox. Where should I look for it?

2. I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory. But I can't find it in gimp.

I suppose I'm just being stupid, but I've used pandora before, so this is rather frustrating.

I found instructions to do Filters>script-fu>Refresh Scripts.

That produced the following message.

Plug-in "script-fu" (/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu) attempted to register the menu item "/Filters/Combine" for procedure "script-fu-pandora-combine". The menu label given in gimp_install_procedure() already contained a path. To make this work, pass just the menu's label to gimp_install_procedure().

Leonard Evens wrote:

I just installed Fedora 14

Wow! Fedora is up to version 14 now? It didn't seem that long ago that 11 came out.

I found instructions to do Filters>script-fu>Refresh Scripts.

That produced the following message.

Plug-in "script-fu" (/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu) attempted to register the menu item "/Filters/Combine" for procedure "script-fu-pandora-combine". The menu label given in gimp_install_procedure() already contained a path. To make this work, pass just the menu's label to gimp_install_procedure().

You are dealing with an old script that hasn't been updated for use with a recent version of GIMP. One option is to ask the author to update the script. The other is to fix it yourself.

Scripts no longer include the menu path in the register block and it has been this way for quite some time. The register block is now used to state the label for the menu entry and a menu_register block has the path that indicates where the menu entry is to appear.

Look at the other Script-Fu scripts which ship with GIMP to see how to set up the register blocks correctly.

On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:04 -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:

Leonard Evens wrote:

I just installed Fedora 14

Wow! Fedora is up to version 14 now? It didn't seem that long ago that 11 came out.

I found instructions to do Filters>script-fu>Refresh Scripts.

That produced the following message.

Plug-in "script-fu" (/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu) attempted to register the menu item "/Filters/Combine" for procedure "script-fu-pandora-combine". The menu label given in gimp_install_procedure() already contained a path. To make this work, pass just the menu's label to gimp_install_procedure().

You are dealing with an old script that hasn't been updated for use with a recent version of GIMP. One option is to ask the author to update the script. The other is to fix it yourself.

I think I have asked the author to update it.

Can you give me more information about how to fix it myself.

I think I am having the same problem with the exposure blend plugin.

Scripts no longer include the menu path in the register block and it has been this way for quite some time. The register block is now used to state the label for the menu entry and a menu_register block has the path that indicates where the menu entry is to appear.

Look at the other Script-Fu scripts which ship with GIMP to see how to set up the register blocks correctly.
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On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 13:57 +1100, Owen wrote:

I've been using gimp under different versions of Fedora Linux for years.
I just installed Fedora 14 on a new computer with all the accompanying gimp packages I could think of. I think I included essentially all of them.

But I seem to be having problems finding things.

1. I downloaded the Exposure Blend Plugin. I put it in my personal .gimp-2.6/plug-ins directory. The instructions say I can find
it by going to
[Toolbox]/Xtns/Photography/Exposure Blend...

I can't find Xtns in the toolbox. Where should I look for it?

2. I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory. But I can't find it in gimp.

I suppose I'm just being stupid, but I've used pandora before, so this is rather frustrating.

"Extns" haven't been in the Toolbox for years now afaict.

I just had a look at that script and it shows ======================================================== (script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-pandora-combine" _"/Filters/Combine")

========================================================

So did you look Image->Filters->Combine?

Yes I did. It isn't there. And nothing I do managed to put it there.

I think that is where it was in my earlier versions of gimp.

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Leonard Evens wrote:

2.  I downloaded pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm and put it as instructed in my personal .gimp-2.6/scripts directory.   But I can't find it in gimp.

I suppose I'm just being stupid, but I've used pandora before, so this is rather frustrating.

Installing and locating add-ons seems to be a recurring topic. So I sat down and finished a guide to GIMP add-ons I started before.

http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=30

It's probably not so useful for you, but some future beginner users might put it to a good use

Cheers, Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org

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