{"id":7048,"date":"2017-08-12T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2017-08-12T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:04:58","slug":"gimp-2-8-22-available-as-snap-app-for-ubuntu-16-04-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/gimp-2-8-22-available-as-snap-app-for-ubuntu-16-04-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.8.22 Available as Snap App for Ubuntu 16.04, Higher"},"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>GIMP, the popular free and open-source cross-platform image editor, now is available as <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snap app<\/a> for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher.<\/p>\n<p>GIMP has been made into the beta channel of Ubuntu Snappy Store for testing for days. Now the latest GIMP 2.8.22 is available in stable channel:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 users that have not installed any Snap app, install <code>snapd<\/code> daemon first via command (open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install snapd<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then install GIMP snap app either via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap install gimp<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/install-gimp-snap-600x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"103\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/install-gimp-snap-600x103.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/install-gimp-snap-450x78.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/install-gimp-snap.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or by using Ubuntu Software Center (need login):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store-450x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store-450x295.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-snappy-store.jpg 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snap app can co-exist with the traditional GIMP package. So if you have both versions installed, you have to launch GIMP Snap app via following command since the app launcher opens the traditional one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">\/snap\/bin\/gimp<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Remove GIMP Snap app:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the app, simply run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo snap remove gimp<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP, the popular free and open-source cross-platform image editor, now is available as Snap app for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher. GIMP has been made into the beta channel of Ubuntu Snappy Store for testing for days. Now the latest GIMP 2.8.22 is available in stable channel: 1. For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 [&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":[764,1485],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gimp","tag-gimp-snap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","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=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}