{"id":3842,"date":"2014-08-26T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:29:11","slug":"install-gimp-2-8-12-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/install-gimp-2-8-12-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install \/ Upgrade to GIMP 2.8.12 in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gimp-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gimp-logo.png\" alt=\"install latest GIMP in Ubuntu\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gimp-logo.png 220w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gimp-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The popular GIMP image editor has been updated to version 2.8.12 with a lot of bug fixes. Here is how to install  or upgrade it in Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP<\/a>, <b>G<\/b>NU <b>I<\/b>mage <b>M<\/b>anipulation <b>P<\/b>rogram, is a raster graphics editor[5] used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gimp-image-editor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gimp-image-editor.jpg\" alt=\"GIMP image editor\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gimp-image-editor.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gimp-image-editor-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes in GIMP 2.8.12:<\/p>\n<p>Core:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OSX: Fix migration code for old GIMP directories<\/li>\n<li>Fix brush sizes when used from plug-ins<\/li>\n<li>Windows: Allow to Explorer-open files with UTF-8 characters in the filename<\/li>\n<li>Make XCF loading more robust against broken files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GUI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure the widget direction matches the GUI language<\/li>\n<li>Remove the option to disable the warning when closing a modified image<\/li>\n<li>Fix canvas overlay widgets (like the text options) for tablets<\/li>\n<li>Make DND work between images in one dockable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Libgimp:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make gimp_image_get_name() return the string used for the image title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plug-ins:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make script-fu-server more secure by listening to 127.0.0.1 by default and add a warning about changing that IP. This breaks the procedure&#8217;s API, but for security reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Bring back proper script-fu translations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Massively clean up and fix the OSX build and bundle<\/li>\n<li>Add Jenkins tutorial<\/li>\n<li>Documentation updates<\/li>\n<li>Bug fixes<\/li>\n<li>Translation updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install \/ Upgrade GIMP in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>GIMP packages are available in PPA for all current support Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Uubntu 12.04.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~otto-kesselgulasch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" target=\"_blank\">PPA description<\/a> says, you can always install or upgrade to the latest GIMP in Ubuntu by running below commands one by one in terminal (press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install gimp<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install-gimp-from-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install-gimp-from-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"GIMP PPA\" width=\"560\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install-gimp-from-ppa.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install-gimp-from-ppa-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After you added the PPA, you can receive updates using <b>Software Updater<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-gimp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-gimp.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade-gimp\" width=\"400\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-gimp.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-gimp-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular GIMP image editor has been updated to version 2.8.12 with a lot of bug fixes. Here is how to install or upgrade it in Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives. GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a raster graphics editor[5] used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, [&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":[764,855,1084],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gimp","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-ubuntu-14-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","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=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}