Change GIMP installation from PPA to snap with extras

[Paddy Landau]

It seems that Snap and Flatpak are the preferred replacements for PPAs, for good reason, with Ubuntu concentrating on Snap.

I currently install GIMP from the GIMP repository (https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp), which allows me to also install gimp-gmic (GREYC's Magic Image Converter).

I experimented with installing GIMP via its snap, which worked well. However, I didn't know how to link gimp-gmic.

How would I install GIMP via snap while also using gimp-gmic? Or should I stick to PPAs for now?

(I suppose that this question could be relevant to applications other than GIMP.)

[23dornot23d]

I loaded gmic from the repos and these were the files in Synaptic ..........

https://sites.google.com/site/000menu/_/rsrc/1541120986825/wayland/problems-ubuntu-build/Screenshot%20at%202018-11-02%2002-08-01.png



they cause gimp to throw up a error ..........

Will go see if I can find a .deb file to load up using gdebi ........ until the repos get updated ........ as it seems the old gmic files are in there .........

Looking around a bit more now - found this
https://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16609



https://sites.google.com/site/000menu/_/rsrc/1541115567794/wayland/problems-ubuntu-build/Screenshot%20at%202018-11-02%2000-38-37.png


Will try this link ........... see if it works .............

https://gmic.eu/gimp.shtml
(https://gmic.eu/gimp.shtml)


root@base-K53SV:/home/base/Downloads# gdebi gmic_ubuntu_bionic_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

GREYC's Magic for Image Computing
G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing.
It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize
generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of
multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.
.
This package contains the command-line tool (gmic), the plug-in for gimp (gmic_gimp),
the library file (libgmic) and the webcam gui (zart).
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Selecting previously unselected package gmic.
(Reading database ... 398065 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack gmic_ubuntu_bionic_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gmic (2.4.1) ...
Setting up gmic (2.4.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...



Now synaptic looks like this

https://sites.google.com/site/000menu/_/rsrc/1541159125852/wayland/problems-ubuntu-build/Screenshot%20at%202018-11-02%2012-41-32.png


and gmic works ok again ..........


https://sites.google.com/site/000menu/_/rsrc/1541159180037/wayland/problems-ubuntu-build/Screenshot%20at%202018-11-02%2012-43-25.png

[Paddy Landau]

Ah, that's excellent! Thank you for sharing your solution.

[23dornot23d]

Your Welcome .......... ;)

Maybe some of the servers are not uptodate yet or its still at the old version on the main repos - for the problem will persist for anyone needing it ........ as what we both have done is to use our own workarounds - it really needs the main repo updating with the newer file.

Onward ....... to the next problem ....... the beauty of upgrading ....... :D

I did ask on another forum why the files are not uptodate and got this response back ........... do not know for sure who maintains them though.



Ubuntu takes care only of the packages that belongs to the “main” repo (the repository related with the Canonical business), the other packages available in the “universe” repo are community-maintained which means no one takes care of that .