How to install g'mic 1.6.0.4 on Ubuntu and derivative systems

How to install g'mic 1.6.0.4 on Ubuntu and derivative systems

G'mic (GREYC's Magic Image Converter) is an Image editing software that can be used with GIMP or as an independent application, cross-platform is applicable to Linux and Windows systems. G'mic provides a window with over 500 filters to add other styles to the photo.

G'mic is equipped with different interfaces: a command line tool, camera operation interface, built-in QT library and GIMP plug-in. The latest version g'mic 1.6.0.4 is available and has been released recently. There are many changes, including:

• Command-array3d duplicates a 3d object along the X, Y and Z axes [backported].
• Command-size3d returns the bounding box size of a 3d object [backported].
• Command-imagegrid_hexagonal and related filter Arrays & tiles/Grid [hexagonal] are able to create colored hexagonal grids from images [backported].
• New plug-in filter Arrays & Tiles/Ministeck which transforms an image into it 'ministeck 'representation [backported].
• New plug-in filter Patterns/Crystal which does linear interpolation of pixels located on image edges [backported].
• New command-Modify ay3d which computes the Dirichlet triangulation of a 2d or 3d point cloud [backported].
• New plug-in filter Artistic/Polygonize [Dirichlet] which makes your image look like a triangulation [backported].
• Filters of the G' MIC plug-in for GIMP can now set the blending mode and opacity of their output layers, as well as their X, Y positions.
• G'mic can now be compiled with default pixel type 'double' instead of 'float '. use this to get more precision during computation (but beware, it takes twice as much memory for storing images ).

For a complete list of changes, see release notes.

Installation is convenient because PPA is available (for Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04, and derivative system users). Open the terminal and run the following command:

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

Sudo apt-get update

Sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

Uninstall gmic and gimp-gmic input:

Sudo apt-get remove gmic gimp-gmic