HOWTO: build gimp 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04

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Install necessary tools and dependencies:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig libdbus-glib-1-dev liblcms2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libtiff4-dev libwebkit-dev libmng-dev librsvg2-dev libwmf-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgs-dev libaa1-dev libjasper-dev python-dev python-gtk2-dev libtool autoconf automake libexiv2-dev openexr libopenexr-dev exrtools dcraw libopenraw-dev libsdl1.2-dev graphviz libgraphviz-dev libavformat-dev libspiro-dev libumfpack5.4.0 enscript ruby-dev liblua5.2-dev gtk-doc-tools libgudev-1.0-dev libexif-dev libxpm-dev

Then fetch the dependencies you need to build:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl

and build them:

cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/build
make
make install
cd ..

cd gegl
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/build/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/build
make
make install
cd ..

Get the gimp source. CHOOSE ONE:

EITHER, download and unpack the tarball (recommended):

wget ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-2.8.0.tar.bz2
tar xvfj gimp-2.8.0.tar.bz2
cd gimp-2.8.0

OR clone the git repo and check out 2.8.0:

git clone http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp
cd gimp
git checkout GIMP_2_8_0

Now, build it gimp:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/build/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/build
make
make install

That's it. Now you can run gimp-2.8 like this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/build/lib $HOME/build/bin/gimp-2.8

Let me know if anything needs fixing. The install list can definitely be trimmed.

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Building from the tarball ...

After:

# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/build/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/build

return is:
bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory


???




ls:

acinclude.m4 config.h.win32 INSTALL NEWS
aclocal.m4 config.sub install-sh NEWS.pre-2-0
app configure libgimp NEWS.pre-2-2
AUTHORS configure.ac libgimpbase NEWS.pre-2-4
authors.dtd COPYING libgimpcolor NEWS.pre-2-6
authors.xml cursors libgimpconfig plug-ins
authors.xsl data libgimpmath po
build depcomp libgimpmodule po-libgimp
ChangeLog desktop libgimpthumb po-plug-ins
ChangeLog.pre-1-0 devel-docs libgimpwidgets po-python
ChangeLog.pre-1-2 docs LICENSE po-script-fu
ChangeLog.pre-2-0 etc ltmain.sh po-tips
ChangeLog.pre-2-2 gimp.pc.in m4macros py-compile
ChangeLog.pre-2-4 gimpthumb.pc.in Makefile.am README
ChangeLog.pre-2-6 gimpui.pc.in Makefile.in README.i18n
compile gimp-zip.in menus themes
config.guess gtk-doc.make missing tools
config.h.in HACKING modules

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... building from 'git':

"... checking for BABL... yes
checking for GEGL... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gegl-0.2 >= 0.2.0) were not met:

No package 'gegl-0.2' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEGL_CFLAGS
and GEGL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Configure failed or did not finish!"


Not working either way building for Ubuntu 12.04.1 or UBS 12.04.2