Upgrade your GIMP version to 2.7 in Ubuntu karmic/Jaunty

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This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken. If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6.

You can check what is new in GIMP 2.7 from here

Note:- GIMP 2.7 is still in development so this is not recommended for production machines

Upgrade (or install) your gimp version to 2.7 in ubuntu

For ubuntu karmic users

Open command prompt run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

Upgrade gimp using the following command

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

or you can install gimp version 2.7 using the following command (before installing this you can remove existing gimp version)

sudo apt-get install gimp

For Ubuntu Jaunty users

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn/ubuntu jaunty main

Save and exit the file

Add GPG key (Only for jaunty users)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 405A15CB

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

Upgrade gimp using the following command

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

or you can install gimp version 2.7 using the following command (before installing this you can remove existing gimp version)

sudo apt-get install gimp

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4 Responses

  1. ArtemZ says:

    10x! GIMP is awesome, as for me, its even more handy than Photoshop. I usually use Ubuntu Tweak to update gimp

  2. inkhorn says:

    *hops on the bandwagon*

    Gimp is great stuff. I will certainly be keeping it despite the droppage in Lucid.

  3. kaiser says:

    thanks

    what about upgrade in ubuntu 8 hardy

  4. Slon says:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn

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