Never used flatpak package before

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Hi,
I’d like to install the latest Gimp dev version (10), but I see there’s only a flatpak package.
I’ve never used flatpak before.
Can someone show me what should I do to execute this gimp .flatpak I’ve just downloaded?
I’m on Ubuntu 16.04.
Thanks in advance.

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There is also an AppImage here: GitHub - aferrero2707/gimp-appimage

Where is the 2.10 flatpak? I haven’t seen it.

Anyway, you need:

  1. The flatpak PPA (ironic, yes): https://launchpad.net/~alexlarsson/+archive/ubuntu/flatpak
  2. I’d use the CLI install method instead of the flatpak file. The flatpak file opens in GNOME Software or KDE discover. I don’t think Ubuntu Software center is supported.
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To install Gimp 2.10 RC2 flatpak:

flatpak install gimp-2.10.0-RC2-x86_64.flatpak

To uninstall:

flatpak uninstall org.gimp.GIMP/x86_64/dev

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@racer-x Thanks. And before that, just add the ppa and install flatpak itself, right?

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No need, it will install Gnome, then the flatpak. You’ll need to enter your password twice.

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@racer-x What? It will install Gnome over Unity?

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http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16431

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@racer-x hummm… I think I won’t mess my ubuntu install, it is my main OS, so I’ll wait for another install option, if there’s one available at some point.
Thanks anyway!

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It won’t install GNOME, it installs a gnome runtime that has all the gtk libraries.

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As @paperdigits suggested, you can try the appimage. It does not require any additional run-time dependency, and it will not mess-up with your system.

Just download the package, make it executable, and run it :slight_smile:

EDIT: RC1 is already available, RC2 is on the way…

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I missed your post.
Thanks for the appimage link, I will go with that

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@Carmelo_DrRaw, Your RC1 appimage ran very well, except for the problem loading scripts. I could edit the python scripts to make it load them, but not the scheme scripts.

Anyway, flatpac seems to be replacing PPA’s. It’s much easier for S/W creators to write a single flatpac that should work on all distros vs multiple PPA’s. The stable version of Gimp and other’s flatpac auto update when new versions come out. There is a large selection of flatpaks in my distro’s S/W repository.

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Where do I find it?

@everyone,
I installed the flatpak version, but I’m not able to maximize the window? Any thoughts?

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The AppImage packages are saved here. Pick the one with the gimp-git-2.10.1 prefix, that’s the most recent one…

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@Carmelo_DrRaw Great, it worked! I will uninstall the flatpak version.
As a side note, libbzip2-dev wasn’t found on Ubuntu 18.04 repositories. libbz2-dev did the trick.

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Good to know! As a side note, please be aware that the AppImage includes by default few popular plug-ins (G’MIC-Qt, liquid rescale, resynthetizer and NUFraw, plus my PhotoFlow plug-in).

I am open for suggestions regarding other useful plug-ins that could be included in addition.

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I downloaded and ran your gimp-git-2.10.1 appimage. It runs great, but won’t load any scheme scripts. My favorite ones are 3-D extrude and BevelReflectLogo. It would be great if you could enable the scheme scripts to show up.

Thanks,

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I have opened an issue on github not to forget about this: Enable scheme scripts · Issue #11 · aferrero2707/gimp-appimage · GitHub