Save for Web GIMP plugin Linux installation

[Bucic]

http://registry.gimp.org/node/33

I was trying to follow the following instructions

1. Unzip the .tar.gz in ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/
2. $ sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev (if not installed packs for compile)
3. $ cd ~/.gimp-2.7/plug-ins/gimp-save-for-web-0.29.3/
4. $ ./configure make
5. $ sudo make install
6. Restart Gimp
7. A new option is created at File>Save for web
-- Sergio Laprea sergio [at] klosma.net

The first time I got Intltool not found so I've installed it like this http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs.../intltool.html
The second time I tried to issue the ./configure make command I got

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checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  ca es fr ja it ko pt_BR ru sk sv
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... (cached) yes
checking if GTK+ is version 2.7.0 or newer... yes
checking if GIMP is version 2.3.0 or newer... yes
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `make': machine `make' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/bash ./config.sub make failed

EDIT:
The proper procedure is:

1. Unzip the .tar.gz in ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/
2. $ sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev (if not installed packs for compile)
3. $ cd ~/.gimp-2.7/plug-ins/gimp-save-for-web-0.29.3/
4. $ ./configure
5 $ make
6. $ sudo make install
7. Restart Gimp
8. A new option is created at File>Save for web
-- Sergio Laprea sergio [at] klosma.net

If you get an error Intltool not found or similar, install it as per http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs.../intltool.html

[hailtothethief]

try

./configure
make

as two separate commands

[robert shearer]

Why are you trying to build it when it is available through the Ubuntu repos...?

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry

This has, amongst several other nifty plugins, the 'save for web' plugin.

Just install, restart Gimp and find it in the drop-downs from the 'File' menu.

[prokoudine]

The second time I tried to issue the ./configure make command I

If you really, REALLY want to install anything from source code, use 'sudo apt-get build-dep PACKAGE' command. In this case it would be 'sudo apt-get build-dep gimp'. But as already pointed out by Robert Shearer, the plug-in is in PPA.

[Bucic]

try

./configure
make

as two separate commands

It worked! Thanks!
The procedure in the original post revised.

[Bucic]

Why are you trying to build it when it is available through the Ubuntu repos...?

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry

This has, amongst several other nifty plugins, the 'save for web' plugin.

Just install, restart Gimp and find it in the drop-downs from the 'File' menu.

The plugin registry from the software center wouldn't install as I use GIMP 2.7 beta.

If you really, REALLY want to install anything from source code, use 'sudo apt-get build-dep PACKAGE' command. In this case it would be 'sudo apt-get build-dep gim'.

Would that single command replace the whole procedure of building from source?

[SeijiSensei]

Would that single command replace the whole procedure of building from source?

No, the build-dep option downloads and installs any needed libraries or header files on which the compilation depends. After running 'sudo apt-get build-dep packagename' you still need to run ./configure and make, but you shouldn't see errors for missing dependencies.

[Bucic]

No, the build-dep option downloads and installs any needed libraries or header files on which the compilation depends. After running 'sudo apt-get build-dep packagename' you still need to run ./configure and make, but you shouldn't see errors for missing dependencies.

Extremely useful, thanks! Sorry for not digging deeper into building from source but I thought I was getting some kind of package-specific error.

BTW, too bad no one will port the far superrior RIOT plugin http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/

[Bucic]

Have anyone managed to install Save for Web plugin for GIMP 2.8 RC1 (or later) on Ubuntu 11.10 or, preferably, 12.04?

[briggsosaurus]

Why are you trying to build it when it is available through the Ubuntu repos...?

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry

This has, amongst several other nifty plugins, the 'save for web' plugin.

Just install, restart Gimp and find it in the drop-downs from the 'File' menu.

WORKED PERFECTLY thank you robert shearer just typed that one command in and restarted gimp and it worked! thank you