Re: [Gimp-user] CloneLayer Tool

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 24/01/15 12:38, atomsmashed wrote:
> > Did you make the plugin executable?
> >
> > Gimp-2.7 was the development version of 2.8 and so work
> >
> >
> > Owen
> Thanks for the reply Owen... Umm, no... But I *think* I tried...
>
> I ended up just extracting it with an archive app on the Android OS after
> spending a while trying... Did I mention I've never actually really used Linux
> before?!
>
> I did try to use 'apt-get install gimp-clt-v0.2b-bin.tar' from the xterm set to
> the plug-ins folder but got an error:
>
> Rading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package gimp-clt-v0.2b-bin.tar
> E: Couldn't find package by regex 'gimp-clt-v0.2b-bin.tar
>
> Not sure what else to try at this point?

The "packages" handled by apt-get have a .deb extension. The .tar is 
just a file that carries several files together (a like ZIP/RAR, but 
without compression by default), and not a "package" in the installer 
sense. To install the thing in Gimp you would do:

- tar -xvf gimp-clt-v0.2b-bin.tar (if this doesn't work, try replaceing 
-xvf by -xvzf)
- move the executable  to your gimp plug-ins directory 
(~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins)

Word of caution: rotating things always introduces some light blur, so 
always rotate from the original position, increasing the angle. If you 
are working with text, you will get cleaner results by obtaining a path 
from the text layer (Layer>Text to path), rotating the path, and using 
the path to create a selection that is then filled.