Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.10.2 on Ubuntu

[Pierre Equoy <pierre equoy protonmail com>]

Hi Jeff,

On July 5, 2018 12:49 PM, Jeffery Small via gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list gnome org> wrote:

> As a test I installed Gimp 2.10.2 under Windows 10 running in a VM on my
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> Xubuntu 18.04 system. I'm seeing some significant slowness in a few
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> operations and particularly in opening the Preferences and other Dialogs --
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> something being reported by other users on the internet. On the other hand
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> I had one person tell me that they had no problems with their custom
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> build. Before replacing 2.8.22 under Ubuntu I wanted to see what other
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> people's experience has been.

I've been using GIMP 2.10 on Ubuntu 18.04 using otto-kesselgulasch's PPA [1] without any noticeable issues.

> Also, from what I've read, it does not appear that you can install 2.10
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> parallel to 2.8 successfully and use both. If I'm wrong about that, please
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> let me know.

You currently have a few options for this:

- install the official flatpak (see gimp.org for more information)
- install the snap version of GIMP (from a terminal, just type `snap install gimp`). It will be installed 
alongside from GIMP 2.8. There are a few known issues that are being fixed at the moment, though [2]


> Any schedule for updating the Ubuntu repository with the current release?

Ubuntu follows Debian schedule, and usually the repositories for a given release (16.04, 18.04) are not 
updated throughout the lifetime of the release, except for security updates.

As you can see in the packages [3], GIMP 2.10 is available for Cosmic (the next version of Ubuntu, aka 18.10).

Hope this helps!


[1] https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp
[2] https://github.com/snapcrafters/gimp/issues
[3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gimp&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

-- 
Pierre