{"id":13881,"date":"2019-04-06T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2019-04-06T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:23:11","slug":"how-to-install-latest-gimp-2-10-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/how-to-install-latest-gimp-2-10-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Latest GIMP 2.10 in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GIMP<\/strong>\u00a0(in full\u00a0<strong>GNU Image Manipulation Program<\/strong>) is a free open source, powerful, and cross-platform image manipulation software that runs on GNU\/Linux, OS X, Windows plus many other operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>It is highly customizable and extensible via third party plugins. It offers advanced tools for graphic designers, photographers, graphical illustrators as well as scientists for high quality image manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>For programmers, it also supports scripted image manipulation, with multiple programming languages such as C, C++, Perl, Python, Scheme, and so much more. The latest major release of\u00a0<strong>GIMP<\/strong>\u00a0is version\u00a0<strong>2.10<\/strong>\u00a0which was released a few weeks ago, and there is a recent update release\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10.2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>What\u2019s New in GIMP 2.10<\/h4>\n<p>Some of the important new highlights of this release are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ships in with a number of new and improved tools such as the Warp transform, the Unified transform and the Handle transform tools.<\/li>\n<li>Color management has become a core feature.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to histogram computation.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for HEIF image format.<\/li>\n<li>Image processing almost completely ported to GEGL.<\/li>\n<li>Uses on-canvas preview for all filters ported to GEGL.<\/li>\n<li>Improved digital painting with support for functions such as canvas rotation and flipping, symmetry painting, MyPaint brush.<\/li>\n<li>Support for several new image formats such as OpenEXR, RGBE, WebP, and HGT.<\/li>\n<li>Supports metadata viewing and editing for Exif, XMP, IPTC, and DICOM.<\/li>\n<li>Offers basic HiDPI support.<\/li>\n<li>Comes with some fresh themes:Light, Gray, Dark, and System and symbolic icons.<\/li>\n<li>Added two new filters: spherize and recursive transform, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know more about GIMP 2.10 features in detail, please refer to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/release-notes\/gimp-2.10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Install GIMP 2.10 in Ubuntu &amp; Linux Mint<\/h3>\n<p>You can install or update Gimp on Ubuntu and Linux Mint using one of the following methods.<\/p>\n<h4>Install Gimp Using PPA<\/h4>\n<p>The developer\u00a0<strong>Otto Kesselgulasch<\/strong>\u00a0maintains a unofficial PPA, which has the latest version of the Gimp program for you to install on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 (16.04 builds are said to be on the way), .<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp\r\n$ sudo apt update\r\n$ sudo apt install gimp\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above PPA will install or upgrade (if you already have\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.8<\/strong>) to\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Install Gimp Using Flatpak<\/h4>\n<p>This is the most recommended way to install\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10<\/strong>\u00a0on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions by using the official Flatpak app on the Flathub app store.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have support for\u00a0<strong>Flatpak<\/strong>, then you need to enable Flatpak support first using the following commands.<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson\/flatpak\r\n$ sudo apt update\r\n$ sudo apt install flatpak\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Once you have Fltapak support, use the following command to install\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<pre>$ flatpak install https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Once Gimp installed, if you don\u2019t see it in the menu, you can start it using the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>$ flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP\r\n<\/pre>\n<div id=\"attachment_29628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Gimp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Gimp.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Gimp.png 900w, https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Gimp-768x399.png 768w\" alt=\"Install Gimp on Ubuntu\" width=\"900\" height=\"468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29628\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-29628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Install Gimp on Ubuntu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Uninstall GIMP 2.10 in Ubuntu &amp; Linux Mint<\/h3>\n<p>For any reasons, if you don\u2019t like\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10<\/strong>\u00a0and want to uninstall or roll back to old stable version. To accomplish this, you need the\u00a0<strong>ppa-purge<\/strong>\u00a0program to purge the PPA from your system using following commands.<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo apt install ppa-purge\r\n$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>That\u2019s all! In this article, we have explained how to install latest version of\u00a0<strong>GIMP 2.10<\/strong>\u00a0in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. If you have any questions, let us know via the feedback form below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/install-gimp-in-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP\u00a0(in full\u00a0GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free open source, powerful, and cross-platform image manipulation software that runs on GNU\/Linux, OS X, Windows plus many other operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible via third party plugins. 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