{"id":7702,"date":"2018-04-29T02:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2018-04-29T02:44:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:44:49","slug":"how-to-install-gimp-2-10-in-ubuntu-18-04-17-10-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/how-to-install-gimp-2-10-in-ubuntu-18-04-17-10-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install GIMP 2.10 in Ubuntu 18.04, 17.10 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5457\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gimp-icon.png\" alt=\"GIMP extra color palettes\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>GIMP 2.10, a new major release of the most popular Linux image editing software, was announced a day ago with huge list of changes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The most notable changes in GIMP 2.10 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly fully ported to\u00a0<b>GEGL<\/b>, allowing high bit depth processing, multi-threaded and hardware accelerated pixel processing, and\u00a0more.<\/li>\n<li>Color management is a core feature now, most widgets and preview areas are\u00a0color-managed.<\/li>\n<li>Many improved tools, and several new and exciting tools, such as the Warp transform, the Unified transform and the Handle transform\u00a0tools.<\/li>\n<li>On-canvas preview for all filters ported to\u00a0<b>GEGL<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Improved digital painting with canvas rotation and flipping, symmetry <b>MyPaint<\/b>\u00a0brush\u00a0support\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Support for several new image formats added (OpenEXR,\u00a0<b>RGBE<\/b>, WebP,\u00a0<b>HGT<\/b>), as well as improved support for many existing formats (in particular more robust\u00a0<b>PSD<\/b>\u00a0importing).<\/li>\n<li>Metadata viewing and editing for Exif,\u00a0<b>XMP<\/b>,\u00a0<b>IPTC<\/b>, and\u00a0<b>DICOM<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Basic HiDPI support: automatic or user-selected icon\u00a0size.<\/li>\n<li>New themes for\u00a0<b>GIMP<\/b>\u00a0(Light, Gray, Dark, and System) and new symbolic icons meant to somewhat dim the environment and shift the focus towards content.<\/li>\n<li>And more, better, more, and even more\u00a0awesome! See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/release-notes\/gimp-2.10.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-splash-600x352.jpg\" alt=\"GIMP 2.10 Splash\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-splash-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-splash-450x264.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-splash.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install GIMP 2.10 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The new release has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~otto-kesselgulasch\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimp\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10. <\/p>\n<p><i>Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported at the moment due to inextricably Glib dependencies.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcuts, or by searching for &#8216;Terminal&#8217; 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<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your password (no visual feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-600x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"79\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-600x79.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic-450x59.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gimp-ppa-bionic.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After added the PPA, you can upgrade to GIMP 2.10 from an existing release using <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-600x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp-450x303.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-gimp.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade GIMP:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install gimp<\/pre>\n<p><i>Tip: <code>apt update<\/code> command is not required for Ubuntu 18.04 since it automatically refresh repository caches after adding PPA.<\/i><\/p>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>For any reason, you can restore to the old GIMP 2.8.22 by running following command in terminal to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch\/gimp<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP 2.10, a new major release of the most popular Linux image editing software, was announced a day ago with huge list of changes. The most notable changes in GIMP 2.10 include: Nearly fully ported to\u00a0GEGL, allowing high bit depth processing, multi-threaded and hardware accelerated pixel processing, and\u00a0more. Color management is a core feature now, [&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":[1490,1085],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-gimp-2-10","tag-image-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","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=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}