GIMP image editor released new 3.2.6 version a few days ago. Here’s the PPA update for Ubuntu users who prefer the native .deb package.
GIMP 3.2.6 is a stable maintenance release that features various bug fixes, security updates, performance improvements.
This version introduced new dynamic input for painting – Rotation (aks Barrel Rotation), allowing supported styluses, such as Wacom Art Pens, to control brush behavior based on pen rotation.
The app startup is now faster when loading a large number of fonts. Dialogs on KDE desktop now use “Server-side Decorations” instead of GNOME Style “Client-side Decorations”.
For Windows, GIMP 3.2.6 now uses system’s accent color for the System Theme, and, it now supports using “Open With” on multiple files on start without creating multiple instances of the image editor.
For macOS, GIMP finally provides official .dmg package. And, the macOS version of GIMP is now much more integrated with system-specific features.
Other changes include:
- C plug-ins and GEGL filters support for AppImage, Windows and macOS packages.
- Replace some deprecated GTK/GDK API to prepare for GTK4 port.
- A large number of CVEs and other security issues.
For more about GIMP 3.2.6 as well as the official packages, see the release note in GIMP website.
Install GIMP 3.2.6 through DEB package in Ubuntu
For those who prefer the native .deb package, I’ve built the new release into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 26.04 (amd64v3 also supported), Ubuntu 24.04, and Linux Mint 22.x.
The Ubuntu 22.04 build is no longer updated, because the system gobject-introspection library that’s used for scripting and plug-ins, especially those written in Python, does not match the minimum requirement.
To add the PPA and install GIMP 3.2.6, launch terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp-3
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gimp gir1.2-babl-0.1 gir1.2-gegl-0.4 gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10 libmypaint-1.5-1 libgegl-0.4-0t64
For any issue, run the commands below to install ppa-purge tool and use it the purge the PPA which will also downgrade all the installed packages:
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp-3
Hi Jim,
First of all thanks for your work on this PPA.
But I have a question: I used to have libgimp-3.0-dev installed. It was uninstalled while updating GIMP.
So I wanted to reinstall but it won’t let me. It basically tells me that it’s in the list of dependencies, but maybe not uploaded. Can you check that please?
Translated message (from German):
No installable version of the libgimp-3.0-dev package was found, even though there is an entry in the database.
This usually indicates that the package is listed as a dependency but was never uploaded, that it is outdated, or that the corresponding package source is missing under “Settings → Package Sources.”
Thanks for pointing out the issue. The GIMP package was backported from the current Ubuntu 26.10 dev repository, but 2610 has updated “libgexiv2-dev” to 0.16 that caused the issue.
If you got dependency error that looks like:
“Depends: libgexiv2-dev (>= 0.16) but it is not going to be installed”
They just try again later (remember to refresh PPA
sudo apt update). I’m going to re-built it soon.If it’s NOT the
libgexiv2-devdependency issue. Try running the command below:Then make sure “3.2.6-0build5~ubuntu2604” is available in version table with priority 500 after it. Finally install via:
Thanks for fixing it so quickly.
I saw the gimp update in the update-manager, installed it.
Then I went to synaptic and could install the libgimp-3.0-dev package.
Problem solved. Thank you.
Under Ubuntu 26.04, I’m getting the following error when trying to launch GIMP:
gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libgegl-0.4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryOn an empty test VM, I was able to reproduce the error after adding the repo and installing with the commands mentioned in the blog post. Anything I am missing?
The
libgegl-0.4-0t64package provides thelibgegl-0.4.so.0runtime library.Try running the command below to see if the package (version from the PPA) is installed:
After installing the package
libgegl-0.4-0t64I got another error:gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libmypaint-1.5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorySo, I had to install two more packages in Ubuntu 26.04:
sudo apt install libmypaint-1.5-1 libgegl-0.4-0t64Now, GIMP starts just fine!
Thank you for the feedback. Updated the command in the post.
This update seems to have broken my GIMP. When using
apt upgrade --autoremove, it removed all of GIMP’s libraries. Did you perhaps accidentally remove the dependancies when updating the package?The 3.2.6 build uses the rule from Ubuntu 26.10 provided package, because the previous one does no long work.
I don’t know why it works in 26.10, but it did break (omit) dependencies in current 2 LTS. I’m going to add the missing dependencies back by next builds.
Done!