How to get G'MIC within GIMP?

[teapot]

Hi,

Using arm64 Raspbian based on Debian 13 (Trixie) how can I get G'MIC within GIMP?

I have the gmic package installed which gives me /usr/bin/gmic but that doesn't give G'MIC within GIMP.

None of Debian's G'MIC packages seem to do that,
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywo...ection=all

'apt-file find gmic-qt' doesn't find any package containing paths with that text.

https://gmic.eu/download.html seems to link to x86_64 binaries, under the amd64 name, and jumping to the full list of files doesn't show any other supported architectures: https://gmic.eu/files/linux/

Would appreciate help on what to do, do I have to compile it from source code?

[rich2005]

(11-08-2025, 07:48 PM)teapot Wrote: Using arm64 Raspbian based on Debian 13 (Trixie) how can I get G'MIC within GIMP?
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Would appreciate help on what to do, do I have to compile it from source code?

There must be an ARM community somewhere but guessing that you will have to compile the gimp_gmic_qt plugin.  I can only give a few clues using a Debian 13 VM - AMD/Intel

Lots of dev packages required. Normally install all at once but I think a slow start might help.  Just the libgimp3 package which will pull in many of the dependencies.

Code:

sudo apt install libgimp-3.0-dev

If all packages are there then you can test in a terminal -  run gimptool

   

If that is working then more dev packages

Code:

sudo apt install git build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libfftw3-dev libtiff-dev libjpeg-dev libopenexr-dev libwebp-dev qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libexiv2-dev

Some of those already installed - it does tell you, so no duplicates.

Get the gmic package https://gmic.eu/files/source/gmic_3.6.3.tar.gz  Unpack it and open a terminal in the src folder
Run make gimp  If anything is missing it will stop . With luck it continues, not quick, be patient. Do not worry about warning messages, but any errors and you are sunk.  Eventually it completes with a message and you can move the plugin into its own folder in the Gimp plug-ins folder.

   

Alternatives:
The flathub people say they normally make a flatpak for both AMD and ARM. Maybe there is also a gimp_gmic_qt plugin.
In a terminal flatpak search GIMP might tell you what is available.

[teapot]

Thank you for your detailed reply Rich, I will give it a go.

[Tas_mania]

It's nice to have gmic inside of Gimp but you actually don't need it.

   


Download from here and select 'G'MIC for Debian - All interfaces (.deb packages)

Debian 13 Trixie: stable   (or latest dev)'

The image above is 'Debian 13 Trixie latest dev'.

I start gmic with 'gmic_qt' and it doesn't work as a plugin for my version of gimp.