How to install GIMP2.8 in Ubuntu12.04

After more than three years of development, GIMP2.8 was finally released. This article describes how to install GIMP2.8 in Ubuntu12.04. As you may expect, GIMP2.8 brings us many new features, more beautiful software interfaces, more mature user experience, and some advanced features such as Layer groups, this allows GIMP to be further developed for higher-level applications. Query the new version change (changelog). Visit here. Target: In Ubuntu12.04 (Precise

After more than three years of development, GIMP 2.8 was finally released. This article describes how to install GIMP 12.04 in Ubuntu 2.8. As you may expect, GIMP 2.8 brings us many new features, more beautiful software interfaces, more mature user experience, and some advanced features such as Layer groups, this allows GIMP to be further developed for higher-level applications.

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Install GIMP 12.04 on Ubuntu 2.8 (Precise Pangolin)

Enjoy the new graphic processing environment!

Now, press Ctrl-Alt-T on the keyboard in Ubuntu to start the terminal window. Enter the following command to add the PPA database source.

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa: otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

Upgrade or install

Sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install gimp

Easy to use. Start and enjoy the powerful functions of GIMP!

If you have installed Gimp, enter the following command before upgrading.

Sudo apt-get remove gimp-plugin-registry

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