{"id":7086,"date":"2017-08-25T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:53:13","slug":"gimp-2-9-6-release-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/gimp-2-9-6-release-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 2.9.6 Release, How to Install it in Ubuntu 16.04"},"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>The development version of GIMP image editor reached the 2.9.6 release a day ago. <\/p>\n<p>As pre-release for the next major GIMP 2.10, here&#8217;s how you can install and test the 2.9.x series in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>GIMP 2.9.6 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s now multi-threaded for modern processors<\/li>\n<li>Better Hi-DPI support<\/li>\n<li>Better Adobe PSD file support<\/li>\n<li>Metadata Viewing and Editing<\/li>\n<li>Several new filters<\/li>\n<li>Crop presets (2\u00d73, 3\u00d74, 16:10, 16:9, square)<\/li>\n<li>And see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/news\/2017\/08\/24\/gimp-2-9-6-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-2.9-splash-600x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-2.9-splash-600x442.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-2.9-splash-450x331.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-2.9-splash.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install GIMP 2.9.x in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>There&#8217;s a PPA repository contains the latest development GIMP packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu 17.10.<\/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\">1. Note that GIMP 2.9.x is unstable! It should not be used in production! <\/p>\n<p>2. The PPA grab the source from GIMP git repository, and it&#8217;s just bumped to 2.9.7. So following steps installs &#8216;GIMP 2.9.7&#8217;<\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for it from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp-edge<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-edge-ppa-600x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"86\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-edge-ppa-600x86.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-edge-ppa-450x64.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gimp-edge-ppa.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade GIMP from an existing release via Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-togimp-2.9x-450x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-togimp-2.9x-450x335.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-togimp-2.9x-600x447.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/upgrade-togimp-2.9x.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or simply run commands to check updates and install GIMP:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install gimp<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Restore:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can easily restore GIMP image editor to the stock version (distribution build) in your Ubuntu by purging the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp-edge<\/pre>\n<p>And if you want to re-install the latest stable GIMP (2.8.22 so far), see <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/gimp-2-8-22-released-with-various-fixes-ubuntu-ppa\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tutorial<\/a> after purging the previous PPA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development version of GIMP image editor reached the 2.9.6 release a day ago. As pre-release for the next major GIMP 2.10, here&#8217;s how you can install and test the 2.9.x series in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives. GIMP 2.9.6 release highlights: It&#8217;s now multi-threaded for modern processors Better Hi-DPI support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[764,1490,1489],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-gimp","tag-gimp-2-10","tag-gimp-2-9"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","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=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}