Where to download GIMP appimage?

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Gimp (stable) is at 2.10.30 and I can’t find any recent appimage. The most recent that I have is 2.10.25 withplugins-x86_64.

I’m aware of the flatpaks but I don’t want to have install flatpak just for 1 software and having the flatpak would be a problem with the sandboxing.

I’ve looked at the OBS. They have the current GIMP but only for opensuse & fedora and not for debian (I run debian 11 bullseye).

Ideally, I’d like the appimage with the gmic plugins but if I could find the current gimp as a deb…

Thanks

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Yes @aferrero did stop its continuous appimage Release Continuous · aferrero2707/gimp-appimage · GitHub :sob:
Here eventually for an appimage I am looking for Gimp 2.10.30 AppImage • GIMP Chat it might not be what you are really searching for…

Luckily Panda Jim does a PPA >> for the .deb/PPA it’s there >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/gimp It’s the latest GIMP 2.10.30 but it’s for Ubuntu (unless you want a Frankendebian…)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp

sudo apt update

sudo apt install gimp

On debian backports you can find the latest GIMP as well
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gimp

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For ubuntu based distros that can use a PPA

For older releases such as bionic, (xenial to focal) recent updated to Gimp 2.10.30 from Rob Savoury

I replaced the Gimp 2.10.22 appimage in kubuntu 18.04 a couple of days ago with 2.10.30 It does pull in several re-built packages that might affect other applications. So far no problems.

As previous post the Panda Jim PPA will get 2.10.30 in focal and later. I am using that in a kubuntu 20.04

Problem with these is no python 2 support, unless you install the packages yourself. Not difficult, just an annoyance.

My two-euros worth. For most Gimp editing the Gimp 2.10.22 or 25 appimage (with plugins) is more than capable, and if you need the gimp gmic plugin, well…there are up-to-date versions available.

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PPA for Ubuntu won’t work on Debian, which is what @foto is running.

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That is very true.

There is a ‘make your own appimage’

see: GitHub - ivan-hc/GIMP-64bit-and-32bit.AppImage: GNU Image Manipulation Program, cross-platform image and photo editor, AppImages for x86 and x64 architectures built from the more recent PPA (supports GLIBC 2.27 or later).

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There was a similar request over on gimpchat.com a couple of weeks ago. I pulled out some old tools and made a 2.10.30 appimage in a 'buntu 21.10 VM Lots of it hand assembled and it works there. It looks like it also works in Debian ‘bullseye’ While I included the Gimp python packages, not able to get these 100% working in Debian (at least not so far)
In a Debian VM looks like this.

950×576 104 KB

The gmic gimp plugin does work. Debian QT5 installation is required, and a static gimp_gmic_qt compile. This one is the latest 3.1.0

949×577 151 KB

Deleted as now a waste of bandwidth. There is a PPA that will provide Gimp 2.10.30 for 'buntu 20.04 (focal)

My advice is stick with the Gimp 2.10.25 appimage where everything works. The old embedded out-of-date gmic plugin can be updated.

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I think you are right, I will stick with 2.10.25 because it already works on my debian 11, and it has the gmic plugin.

Thanks

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If you want an updated gmic plugin that works with the older QT5 found in the appimage then I keep some here: gmic_gimp_qt and Ubuntu 18.04 Download, unzip, put in the appimage profile ~/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/plug-ins/
That should supersede the old out-of-date plugin. If it does not work, well just delete it to go back to the old plugin.

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