Upgrading GIMP from 2.6 to 2.8

**coloreporter** · September 2nd, 2012

I've found a few sources that say to do the following to update GIMP to 2.8:

1.Delete Gimp
sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry
2.Add the following PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa

tto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update
3.Install Gimp
sudo apt-get install gimp

This hasn't worked for me. I don't seem to be getting an error, but when I open GIMP it's still version 2.6. Does anyone know how I can get version 2.8?

Thanks.

**zvacet** · September 2nd, 2012

Read this and see is it of any help to you.

**coloreporter** · September 4th, 2012

Originally Posted by zvacet

Read this and see is it of any help to you.

That did it! Thank you.

**aquarius18** · September 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by zvacet

Read this and see is it of any help to you.

Tried this in 11.10 Oneiric - to no avail (not ready for an upgrade to 12.04 Pangolin)

Any ideas please?

Thanks

**aquarius18** · September 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by aquarius18

Tried this in 11.10 Oneiric - to no avail (not ready for an upgrade to 12.04 Pangolin)

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Got around it by removing Gimp 2.6 and then installing 2.8 from Noobslab (scroll down to the bottom half of the page)

**aquarius18** · September 15th, 2012

Originally Posted by aquarius18

Got around it by removing Gimp 2.6 and then installing 2.8 from Noobslab (scroll down to the bottom half of the page)

Might add that Gimp is working A1, only hiccup was that xsane had been removed during the installation process. That was fixed easily by re-installing xsane.