My notes on using gimpsvn.sh to install Gimp 2.5.x

Written by James McDonald

June 26, 2008

I wanted to try and install the latest version of the GIMP So I googled and found this blog with a nice gimp svn download and installation script named gimpsvn.sh
cd ~/gimp-build
My notes:

Do make a directory such as gimp-build and cd into it
mkdir ~/gimp-build
cd gimp-build

When you copy the script from the website and paste the script into an editor you may need to remove the fancy quotes and replace them with plain old quotes " likewise some single quotes may show as these so you may need to replace them with '. Also run through the script and check for bad line wraps as some of the commands may fail due to them.

I also create a my_prefix=/opt/gimpsvn variable at the top of the script and replace all instances of /opt/gimpsvn with $my_prefix to allow control of the location with only one change.

Save the script into your gimp-build directory as gimpsvn.sh and make it executeable chmod +x gimpsvn.sh

To kick the build off
./gimpsvn.sh

The gimpsvn.sh script uses checkinstall to install the packages. For package name I simply typed the name of each package: BABL, GEGL or GIMP and pressed enter twice. e.g.
Please write a description for the package.
End your description with an empty line or EOF.
>> GIMP
>>

I pressed enter to accept the rest of the checkinstall defaults:
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:

I entered no to create a docs package.
Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: n

When seeing the checkinstall error “Building Debian package… FAILED!” I ignored it because the install into $my_prefix (/opt/gimpsvn) was successful, which is what counts

I entered no to view the log after checkinstall finished

Once all the packages are installed it’s a good idea to create a gimp-2.5 launch script somewhere in your path.

I created /home/user/bin/gimp-2.5 with the following contents as recommended by the developer release notes and made it executeable.

#!/bin/sh
PREFIX=/opt/gimpsvn
PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$PREFIX/bin/gimp-2.5 "$@"

This was all done on:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

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