gimp terminal

[beezle]

something strange. l am using linux lite 6. i was looking on the internet for something similar to the old windows paint program and i came across, you guessed it, gimp. so being a little smart, i looked in my menu under graphics and all accessories. no gimp. next smart thing. i typed gimp in terminal. gimp 2.10 loaded up on my screen, i did my old paint things successfully, with no error messages, and closed gimp.  i incorrectly assumed i had installed gimp on my computer by type gimp in terminal. alas no gimp in my menu. so what the heck was that? and i can do it again.

[rich2005]

It might be that you got a flatpak or a snap version of Gimp that launch in different ways.

From here: https://tutorialforlinux.com/2018/04/03/...-gnulinux/ linux lite can use a PPA.

You can add https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+...buntu/gimp - follow the directions there to add and update

Then for an install it is

Code:

sudo apt install gimp

and that should get you a Gimp 2.10.36 which will open from a terminal if you want that way.

edit: As often, I did not read the post correctly and Ofnuts is correct. It is unusual for no .desktop file if Gimp is installed from a repo. Did you install Gimp or is it already there in LinuxLite ?

[Ofnuts]

(01-17-2024, 01:16 PM)beezle Wrote: something strange. l am using linux lite 6. i was looking on the internet for something similar to the old windows paint program and i came across, you guessed it, gimp. so being a little smart, i looked in my menu under graphics and all accessories. no gimp. next smart thing. i typed gimp in terminal. gimp 2.10 loaded up on my screen, i did my old paint things successfully, with no error messages, and closed gimp.  i incorrectly assumed i had installed gimp on my computer by type gimp in terminal. alas no gimp in my menu. so what the heck was that? and i can do it again.

No, that only meant that you had no start icon for it (.desktop file, in Linux).