HOWTO: Install Mathmap Gimp plugin

[diogosousa]

This mini HOWTO explains how to compile and install the Mathmap (1.0.1) Gimp Plugin.

(Tested in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty 32 bits with Gimp 2.2 and 2.3)

Important: This is an easy to follow tutorial, but PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK

Pre-Requisites:

• Gimp
  
  If you don't already have it, install it:
  
  

  sudo apt-get install gimp

• Other packages (Needed!)
  
  

  sudo apt-get install flex bison gsl-bin libgsl0-dev libgimp2.0-dev

Get/Unpack Mathmap plugin:

• Get the plugin
  

  wget http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/mathmap-1.0.1.tar.gz

• Unpack the plugin
  

  tar xvfz mathmap-1.0.1.tar.gz

Compile/Install Mathmap plugin:

Get into the unpacked directory and "do the magic":

cd mathmap-1.0.1
make
make install

Where is the plugin?

(If you followed correctly all the previous steps) in Gimp, at the image window there is a new menu [Filters]>[Generic]>[Mathmap]

Troubleshooting

If you just installed Gimp, make sure you run it once, so it creates the ~/.gimp-2.2/ directory.

Make sure you have installed all the "pre-requesites"

Further Reading (Links)

• Mathmap Homepage: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/
• Gimp Homepage: http://www.gimp.org/
• Flickr's Mathmap Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/mathmap/

[edmondt]

Looks like a cool plugin Geat instructions, I installed it and it works...

[pengko.eo]

hello there. could you please help me? i successfully installed mathmap on my ubuntu using your tutorial. the thing is, its not working well on my hardy heron. when i choose the warp option, nothing changed in my picture. and it seems that under the picture there is a message "cannot read template file new_template.c"



do you know what happens? thanks a lot.

[evadsllim]

Did fine until you directed to get into the unpacked directory. Not sure what this means. Could you assist? Thx