What No GIMP

[anonprivate]

I was very surprised to note that GIMP is not in the muon package manager. Are those using GIMP installing via a ppa?

[chimak111]

What does

apt policy gimp

show on your system? Have you enabled the universe repo?

[anonprivate]

What does

apt policy gimp

show on your system? Have you enabled the universe repo?

Hello,

Thanks for responding.

apt policy gimp

gives:

andrew@Toshiba-Satellite-L350:~$ apt policy gimp
gimp:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1
 Version table:
    2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1 500
       500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
       500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
    2.8.16-1ubuntu1 500
       500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
andrew@Toshiba-Satellite-L350:~$

I am not familiar with the 'universe repo', or how to enable it.

Regards

[oldgeek]

GIMP is also available as an Appimage, which is what I have. Now if I can only learn how to use it...

[chimak111]

GIMP is also available as an Appimage, which is what I have. Now if I can only learn how to use it...

Why not try Krita?

[jglen490]

You can look in /etc/apt/sources to see if

ubuntu xenial-updates/universe

is listed, and add it if it's not there.

[anonprivate]

You can look in /etc/apt/sources to see if is listed, and add it if it's not there.

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe

[GreyGeek]

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe

Well, you can add the line to the sources.list file and then do "sudo apt update"
OR,
you can wonder through the WWW looking for a recent deb package to download that is compatible with the version of Kubuntu you are running, download it and then run "dpkg -i whatever" against it and hope you don't have to go wondering around for uninstalled dependencies, again, and make sure they match the deb package you downloaded and the Kubuntu version you are running. Rinse and repeat until you get what you are looking for.

Repositories make things simple and reduce the chances of installing an infected package.

[jglen490]

I just looked in Synaptic and Gimp shows up, of course I'm on 18.04 and my /etc/apt/sources.list shows

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse

[vinnywright]

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe

you can do this with Muon ,,,,,,,

open Muon click settings , click "configure software sources" you will be asked for your password , on the first tab of the window that will open the second entry down with a check box in front of it will be the universe repo , tick the checkbox and click close , Muon will do a update of the software , after it's done check for Gimp once again.

VINNY

[jglen490]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

[vinnywright]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

the OP stated that he uses Muon , that is why I referenced it ,, you can do the same thing in Synaptic , but their it's , settings>Repositories.

VINNY

[Beerislife]

Strange, Gimp 2.8 was available immediately in the repo on a fresh install of KDE Neon. I'm running Gimp 2.10 though from:

https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgu...ve/ubuntu/gimp

[anonprivate]

you can do this with Muon ,,,,,,,

open Muon click settings , click "configure software sources" you will be asked for your password , on the first tab of the window that will open the second entry down with a check box in front of it will be the universe repo , tick the checkbox and click close , Muon will do a update of the software , after it's done check for Gimp once again.

VINNY

Spot on.

I noticed that the universe box was already ticked, but, on closing, I saw gimp in the archive.

Best wishes.

[anonprivate]

Well, you can add the line to the sources.list file and then do "sudo apt update"
OR,
you can wonder through the WWW looking for a recent deb package to download that is compatible with the version of Kubuntu you are running, download it and then run "dpkg -i whatever" against it and hope you don't have to go wondering around for uninstalled dependencies, again, and make sure they match the deb package you downloaded and the Kubuntu version you are running. Rinse and repeat until you get what you are looking for.

Repositories make things simple and reduce the chances of installing an infected package.

I now have gimp installed.via the package manager

Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks