GIMP installation

Support & Help Requests
1

Hey, is it possible to install GIMP? How? I haven't found a way to install flank.

2

GIMP is in the repositories. You can use apt (CLI), Synaptic (GUI), Software Boutique, or your choice of methods.

I have no idea what "flank" is, and can't find anything on a search.

3

https://www.flatpak.org/
My be that yow meaning?

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4

Thanks, unfortunatelly there is an error stayiting that some dependencies could not be install. How to debug?

5

Well, it gives me this error message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (>= 2.10.18) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgimp2.0 (<= 2.10.18-z) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgegl-0.4-0 (>= 0.4.22) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

6

are you on UM 20.04 ?

make sure your system is up-to-date
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade

to fix broken pkgs, sudo apt install -f

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Yes, I am on 20.04.

And your post is still not 20 characters long, have you tried the heart button?
--Why my post should be more than 20 chars long?
--Where is the button of love?

8

Still the same problem.

9

Let's make sure your system is up-to-date.
After sudo apt update it should report, All packages are up to date.

10

Yes, the system reports it's up to date.

11

Maybe thru ppa otto-kesselgulasch?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt install gimp

12

Here is the official Debian repository. Hopefully one will meet all the dependencies.
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=gimp

13

Why replying to me ? I know how to install gimp and i use manjaro-mate!

14

Sorry, hit the wrong reply button, should have been reply to Juandev

15

It's ok ! About install gimp i think is little tricky with dependencies and must be advance user to deal with it. My opinion !

16

So could you explain to me that error message?

  1. Depends - so I guess it means GIMP depends on this
  2. libgimp2.0 - it is the name of the file on which it depends. By the way is it a GIMP file, Ubuntu file, or what?
  3. <= 2.10.18-z - what is this? Is it a version and operator saying I need a lower version of that?
  4. but it is not going to be installed - so if it is not going to be installed I think it's not in the GIMP package I have downloaded. It takes me to my question in 2.
17

Same problem. If I try to install dependencies I get into something like libopenexr23 which is not in the repo.

18

@Juandev, would you like to try snap version of GIMP? This comes with all required dependencies built-in.

For snap package, the command is,

snap install gimp

The other format is flatpak which @joe has already pointed out. Have you tried it and didn't work? Hopefully, one of the two formats (snap or flatpak) should work fine for you.

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19

Yup, this worked. Thank you. Yes I have had installed flatpak, but I had no idea how to use it. Now I see it would by something like "flatpak install gimp" or so.

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i think this will help you.