04-17-2020, 03:26 PM
My advice, keep your existing Gimp installation (flatpak?) until happy with the appimage.
It works by: Make the appimage file executable, run it (maybe make a launcher for it) and it unpacks to a temporary folder in ./tmp When you close Gimp that folder is deleted.
What it does make is a permanent user Gimp profile. In this case it is ~/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/ Just the same as a regular Gimp profile. All the folders there for your brushes / scripts / plug-ins etc.
This is a good and flexible alternative to the PPA. I use (k)ubuntu 18.04 so a real interest in when it might update. The maintainer Thorsten Stettin is having real problems with building Gimp 2.10.18 Latest fail is GEGL I hope it is eventually sorted out. Not holding my breath.
Just as an example: https://i.imgur.com/5rM3iZb.jpg
I keep a Gimp 2.10.14 from the PPA with a gimp_gmic_qt 2.9.1 from here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-gmic-g...untu-18-04
and
A Gimp 2.10.18 appimage. I do like the new condensed tools / tool options
All sorts of things you can do in linux
It works by: Make the appimage file executable, run it (maybe make a launcher for it) and it unpacks to a temporary folder in ./tmp When you close Gimp that folder is deleted.
What it does make is a permanent user Gimp profile. In this case it is ~/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/ Just the same as a regular Gimp profile. All the folders there for your brushes / scripts / plug-ins etc.
This is a good and flexible alternative to the PPA. I use (k)ubuntu 18.04 so a real interest in when it might update. The maintainer Thorsten Stettin is having real problems with building Gimp 2.10.18 Latest fail is GEGL I hope it is eventually sorted out. Not holding my breath.
Just as an example: https://i.imgur.com/5rM3iZb.jpg
I keep a Gimp 2.10.14 from the PPA with a gimp_gmic_qt 2.9.1 from here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-gmic-g...untu-18-04
and
A Gimp 2.10.18 appimage. I do like the new condensed tools / tool options
All sorts of things you can do in linux