How to install gimp-2.8.0-RC1.tar.bz2 ubuntu 10.04 or higher?

[davidvandoren]

I have tried all day long to install Gimp 2.8 from source using this gimp-2.8.0-RC1.tar.bz2 file.
Luckily I did this in a virtual pc and not on my host system, because that system is completely toast now.
There were so many dependencies to solve that at the end I marked something like ATK for removal which almost completely erased everything.

Has anyone come across a step by step guide on How to install that source file yet? If so, please share.

Thanks!

[oldos2er]

Moved to Packaging and Compiling Programs.

[23dornot23d]

I thought I would have a go ....

Got it from here - http://www.gimpusers.com/downloads/5...c1-source-code

There is a INSTALL

Document in the release ..... although I too followed it and get stuck at GLIB

this is a 12.04 Kubuntu install and why it thinks there are 2 versions of GLIB
I do not know ..... ( but I do know both are greater than what is needed )

Yet it does not let me continue .....

Not a lot of help I know - but I would like to point this out to the devs as to me
this should not happen and it also should allow me to carry on using the latest
version ....... BABL went in fine pkg-config went in fine .... Initltool went in fine

root@keith-Aspire-7730ZG:/# find / -name glib-2.0
/usr/include/glib-2.0
/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
/usr/local/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0
/usr/local/share/glib-2.0
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0
/usr/share/glib-2.0

Then we stopped ..... is there an easy way to point this to the correct one
I have come across this before and not known how to resolve the double
version issue .....

checking for fsync... yes
checking for BABL... yes
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.28.0...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.31.17, but GLIB (2.32.0)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files
no
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.28.0 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
keith@keith-Aspire-7730ZG:~/Downloads/gegl$ echo LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
keith@keith-Aspire-7730ZG:~/Downloads/gegl$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

keith@keith-Aspire-7730ZG:~/Downloads/gegl$

The install document has these requirements in it PLUS - MUCH MORE INFORMATION TOO

PLEASE READ IT AS IT COULD BREAK THINGS IF YOU INSTALL IT AND IT GOES WRONG

WHEN INSTALLING FROM SOURCE FILES THERE IS NO EASY RETURN JOURNEY

1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/. done ///

2. You need intltool (at least 0.40.1, but preferably a newer version).
Intltool can be downloaded from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/. done ///

3. You need to have GEGL version 0.2.0 or newer and babl version
0.1.10 or newer. You can get them from http://gegl.org/ or clone
them from the GNOME git repository:

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

4. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.24.10 or newer.
GIMP also need a recent versions of GLib (>= 2.30.2), GDK-Pixbuf
(>= 2.24.1), and Pango (>= 1.29.4). Sources for these can be grabbed
from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.

5. We use cairo >= 1.10.2, which is hosted at
http://www.cairographics.org/.

6. We require PangoCairo, a Pango backend using Cairo. Make sure you
have Cairo, FreeType2 and fontconfig installed before you compile
Pango. GIMP depends on freetype2 being newer than version 2.1.7
and fontconfig 2.2.0 or newer. Older versions are known to have
bugs that seriously affect the stability of GIMP.

7. We use dbus-glib if available. Grab it from
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/

8. Access of remote files is implemented in the URI plug-in. There
are several possible implementations for this. The implementation
used is determined when you configure GIMP. By default the
GIO/GVfs backend is used. If you don't have GVfs support on your
target platform, you should pass the '--without-gvfs' option to
configure. The configure script will then try to detect another
method for accessing remote files.

9. You may want to install other third party libraries or programs
that are needed for some of the available plug-ins. We recommend
to check that the following libraries are installed: lcms,
libpng, libjpeg, libpoppler, libtiff, webkit, libmng, librsvg,
libwmf, libz, libbzip2, libgs (Ghostscript), libaa and libjasper.

10. The Python extension requires Python development headers to be
present. You will also need PyGTK and the respective development
headers.

11. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
to pass some options to it, see below.

12. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours
of make, we'd appreciate if you'd send us a patch with the changes.

13. Install GIMP by running `make install'. In order to avoid clashes
with other versions of GIMP, we install a binary called gimp-2.8.
By default there's also a link created so that you can type 'gimp'
to start gimp-2.8.

Please make sure you don't have any old GTK+-2.x, jpeg, etc. libraries
lying around on your system, otherwise configure may fail to find the
new ones.

[mc4man]

Only have 12.04 so only in regards to that. (only earlier ubuntu release you'd need to get a higher libglib I believe

Pretty easy, 12.04 provides all that's needed except gegl & babl versions required.
(acquiring build-deps here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=21
So you'd build both of those then gimp-2.8 (or wait for a ppa to do

Here's a page that lays out the basic's to build to /opt, I did a varition of that type of build, did use /opt
(have a local build of 2.7.5 in /usr/local, so /opt worked best, plus didn't want the new gegl & babl to interfere

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/c...imp-for-ubuntu

Here's the full listing of commands I used, start to finish in the same terminal (you must use the same terminal or if not then rerun the export commands before resuming

Do note -
gegl will build with avformat support if the headers are installed. I had a local static build of a recent git FFmpeg. It built off of that without incident but there was a runtime issue
So I temp removed my local FFmpeg package & used the 12.04 libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev

Also -
I used checkinstall to install all, mainly because I dump my 12.04 installs weekly & I can, with care, re-use the .debs.
Also the gimp source compiled is large, almost 1/2 GB, so I can remove after moving the .deb out, or keep & clean
Will post the commands I used, there is some leeway there, I didn't use --defaults so commands are longer, wanted it to stop at the package config screen to review

( if using checkinstall & want to have the repo or 2.7.X installed then make sure the package name is not gimp, I used gimp2

You should review the results of the ./autogen.sh & or ./configure to make sure all that's wanted to be enabled is before running a make.

The are various ways to run & add the .desktop, ect. The binary is gimp-2.8

One could also look for snapshots of gegl & babl instead of a git clone - fine today, you never know down the road.., if so a ./configure ... usually will suffice instead of a ./autogen.sh ...

If desired you can build in /tmp like in link

mkdir gimp_build && cd gimp_build

export PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/lib

git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8
make


sudo make install

or

sudo checkinstall --pkgname=babl --pkgversion=0.1.10 --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
--fstrans=no --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default
cd ..
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8

# if dep packages are added after the above use this till correct
./configure  --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8  
make


sudo make install

or 

sudo checkinstall --pkgname=gegl --pkgversion=0.2 --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
--fstrans=no --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default

cd ..
cd gimp-2.8.0  # I unpacked the gimp-2.8 tar into the gimp_build
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8
make


sudo make install 

or

sudo checkinstall --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --backup=no --deldoc=yes \
--deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --pkgname=gimp2 --pkgversion=2.8.0-rc1 \
--provides gimp-2.8.0 --default

For a .desktop I used ~/... like

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/gimp2.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Gimp 2.8
Comment=Create images and edit photographs
Exec=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp-2.8 %U
TryExec=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp-2.8
Icon=gimp
Terminal=false
Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;RasterGraphics;GTK;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=GIMP
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=General
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.8.0-RC1
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-OtherBinaries=gimp-2.8
MimeType=application/postscript;application/pdf;image/bmp;image/g3fax;image/gif;image/x-fits;image/pcx;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-psd;image/x-sgi;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;image/x-xwindowdump;image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;image/x-gimp-gbr;image/x-gimp-pat;image/x-gimp-gih;image/tiff;image/jpeg;image/x-psp;image/png;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/svg+xml;application/pdf;image/x-wmf;image/jp2;image/jpeg2000;image/jpx;image/x-xcursor;

Note - if gimp-2.6 or 2.7 isn't installed normally then full path the Icon= line, EX.
Icon=/opt/gimp-2.8/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gimp.png

[LinkofHyrule89]

I've tried for hours to compile this on my newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 with no luck can you just upload the .deb for Ubuntu x64?

[davidvandoren]

Here I get stuck and don't know how to go on.
With installing gimp 2.8 of course.
cd ..
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8

# if dep packages are added after the above use this till correct
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.8

checking for vapigen... no
*** Check for vapigen failed.
checking for fsync... yes
checking for BABL... yes
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.28.0... yes (version 2.32.0)
checking for DEP... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
./configure: line 17639: syntax error near unexpected token `0.40.1'
./configure: line 17639: `IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.40.1)'