GIMP-2.2.3

Introduction to GIMP

The GIMP package contains the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/gimp/v2.2/gimp-2.2.3.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.2/gimp-2.2.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a65ea578d42a8c6658296aa52547063d
Download size: 13.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 277 MB
Estimated build time: 5.63 SBU (additional 1.01 SBU to run test suite)

GIMP dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.6.4, libart_lgpl-2.3.16 and Perl modules: XML-Parser

Optional

Gimp-Print-4.2.7, libjpeg-6b, libtiff-3.7.1, libmng-1.0.8, librsvg-2.8.1, AAlib-1.4rc5, lcms-1.14, libgtkhtml-2.6.2, libxslt-1.1.12, Python-2.4 (and PyGTK), GTK-Doc-1.2, MTA, ALSA-1.0.7, libexif and libwmf

Installation of GIMP

Install GIMP by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-print \
    --without-libjpeg --without-libtiff &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command explanations

--disable-print: This option will disable print support and is necessary if gimp-print is not installed. If you have gimp-print installed, remove this option.

--without-libjpeg: This option is necessary if libjpeg is not installed. Remove it if libjpeg is installed.

--without-libtiff: This option is necessary if libtiff is not installed. Remove it if libtiff is installed.

Configuring GIMP

Config files

/etc/gimp/2.0/* and ~/.gimp-2.0/gimprc

Configuration Information

GIMP executes a configuration wizard for each user upon their initial use of the program.

gimp: is a symbolic link to gimp-2.2.
gimp-2.2: is an image manipulation program. It works with a variety of image formats and provides a large selection of tools.
gimp-remote: is a symbolic link to gimp-remote-2.2.
gimp-remote-2.2: is a small utility that tells a running GIMP to open a local or remote image file.
gimptool-2.0: is a tool that can build plug-ins or scripts and install them if they are distributed in one source file. gimptool-2.0 can also be used by programs that need to know what libraries and include-paths GIMP was compiled with.
libgimp-2.0.so: provides C bindings for GIMP's Procedural Database (PDB) which offers an interface to core functions and to functionality provided by plug-ins.
libgimpbase-2.0.so: provides the C functions for basic GIMP functionality such as determining enumeration data types, gettext translation, determining GIMP's version number and capabilities, handling data files and accessing the environment.
libgimpcolor-2.0.so: provides the C functions relating to RGB, HSV and CMYK colors as well as converting colors between different color models and performing adaptive supersampling on an area.
libgimpmath-2.0.so: contains C functions which provide mathematical definitions and macros, manipulate 3x3 transformation matrices, set up and manipulate vectors and the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
libgimpmodule-2.0.so: provides the C functions which implements module loading using GModule and keeps a list of GimpModule's found in a given searchpath.
libgimpthumb-2.0.so: provides the C functions for handling GIMP's thumbnail objects.
libgimpui-2.0.so: contains the GIMP common user interface functions.
libgimpwidgets-2.0.so: contains GIMP and GTK widget creation and manipulation functions.

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