{"id":10533,"date":"2020-07-21T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2020-12-16T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:24:35","slug":"ppa-install-gimp-2-10-20-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/ppa-install-gimp-2-10-20-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"[New Ubuntu PPA] How to Install GIMP 2.10.20 in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gimp-icon.png\" alt=\"GIMP extra color palettes\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest GIMP image editor 2.10.20 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x, and 20 via new PPA repository.<\/p>\n<p>Although GIMP is available as both the containerized <b>Snap<\/b> and <b>Flatpak<\/b> packages, <b>I prefer installing GIMP deb package via apt repository<\/b> and receiving updates via <i>Software Updater<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~otto-kesselgulasch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otto kesselgulasch has dropped the PPA<\/a> due to personal reasons. Now I&#8217;ve uploaded the most recent 2.10.20 packages into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this unofficial PPA<\/a>. So far, Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 are supported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-21020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-21020.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-21020-450x238.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install GIMP 2.10.20 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><i>NOTE: Different to the previous PPA packages, there&#8217;s no Python scripting support.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-yellow\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-lightbulb-o'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">Thanks to MIchael Coyle, it&#8217;s recommended to purge Otto kesselgulasch&#8217;s PPA to avoid BABL version issue:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none\">sudo apt install ppa-purge &amp;&amp; sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open <u>terminal<\/u> from system application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/gimp<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-unofficialppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-unofficialppa-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gimp-unofficialppa-focal-450x77.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> If an old version of GIMP <code>.deb<\/code> package was installed, upgrade it via <i>Software Updater<\/i> (Update Manager) utility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/upgrade-gimp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10536\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run apt commands in terminal to install GIMP:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install gimp gimp-gmic<\/pre>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>To restore GIMP to the stock version in main Ubuntu repository, run command to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/gimp<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest GIMP image editor 2.10.20 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19.x, and 20 via new PPA repository. Although GIMP is available as both the containerized Snap and Flatpak packages, I prefer installing GIMP deb package via apt repository and receiving updates via Software Updater. Otto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1963],"class_list":["post-10533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gimp-ppa-ubuntu-20-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}