HOW TO INSTALL GIMP PHOTO EDITOR ON UBUNTU

About GIMP Photo Editor:-

GIMP Photo Editor (GNU Image Manipulation Program)is a freely distributed program for photo retouching, image composition image format converting, image authoring, Animation, advanced Manipulation, and much more. GIMP is designed as expandable and extensible to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. If you want to know more features about GIMP 👈 .

How to Install GIMP:-

There are many ways to install the software in the Linux operating system but I recommend the most frequently used two ways for GIMP installation. 

👉 Using the Ubuntu Software Center.
1. Search for the ubuntu software center in the application list and open it.

2. Inside the software, center search GIMP Photo Editor, if more than one result comes then choose the vendor you want to download from by goes through the review and rating.

 

3. Press the Install button and confirm your user password.

 

4. After the installation process completes you can open GIMP by pressing the Lunch button over there or by search gimp in your applications list.

👉 Using PPA [To get the latest version].

By using the Ubuntu Software Center, it's not sure that you may get the latest version! To know why read Point No.4?
We have to add the PPA of GIMP for that in Terminal of Ubuntu.
Where we get that PPA?
1. Open your web browser and search for GIMP PPA click the first link.

 

2. Copy the first command from installing.

 

3. Open your Terminal [Ctrl+Alt+T ] and paste [Ctrl+Shift+V] into the command.

 

 
4. Then press Enter and type your Sudo(superuser) password and again hit Enter.

 

 

Your entered password never shows in the terminal to make your password more secure. you just have to type the correct password and press Enter key.

Press Enter, if it asks again.

Then the repository is successfully added to the sources. list file on your computer.

5. To update the sources.list file you have to type the below command in terminal and press Enter.

    sudo apt update

 

It updates the GIMP Repository to get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies.

6. Now type the below command in your terminal to install the latest version of GIMP.

    sudo apt install gimp

 

And after that, your Gimp is successfully installed in your ubuntu operating system. 

Now to Open GIMP go to your dash and search for gimp and click the GIMP icon to open and there you go..

Not only ubuntu most of Linux distro and also all versions of ubuntu like 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10, but 18.04 LTS also follow the same process only difference is an older version of ubuntu follow apt-get instead of apt and all are same.

Remove GIMP:-

To completely remove GIMP with the PPA from your operating system you should run the following two commands in your Ubuntu terminal.

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

In case if it showing some error then you run the following one command instead of the above.

sudo apt remove gimp

There are some ways to install/uninstall GIMP Photo Editor. If you still confuse, then watch this video.