14 Oct 2009 01:56 AM, by redforce (Richard H.)

Compiling GIMP 2.7/git-master with Ubuntu 9.04/9.10

Instructions to compile the current GIMP source code (master version in GIT repository) with Ubuntu Linux 9.04 + 9.10

Important: The current GIT master version is a snapshot, an intermediate version that can be used to follow current developments (for instance, the single window mode). For production use, always use a stable GIMP version (2.6)!

The procedure is the same for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, but with Ubuntu 9.04 you have to download & compile the newest Gtk version.

# (as non-root user)

cd ~
mkdir -p tmp
cd tmp

# Important! These variables have to be set and
# are required for all further commands. If you close the
# terminal window, you have to give the 3 export commands
# again.
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gimp-2.7/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib

# Fetch the most important packages
sudo apt-get build-dep gimp

# Additional packages
sudo aptitude install checkinstall git-core libtool libopenexr-dev libopenraw-dev libspiro-dev

### BEGIN: ONLY NEEDED FOR UBUNTU 9.04 ###
# Fetch, compile, install Glib (needed for Gtk)
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.22/glib-2.22.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf glib-2.22.2.tar.bz2
cd glib-2.22.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

# Fetch, compile, install Gtk
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.18/gtk+-2.18.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf gtk+-2.18.2.tar.bz2
cd gtk+-2.18.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..
### END: ONLY NEEDED FOR UBUNTU 9.04 ###

# Fetch, compile, install BABL
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/babl
cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

# Fetch, compile, install GEGL
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

# Fetch, compile, install GIMP
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gimp
cd gimp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
make -j3
sudo make install -j3
cd ..

Launch GIMP with:

/opt/gimp-2.7/bin/gimp-2.7

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http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Oct 14 04:01:10 2009 Luan Almeida, 14 Oct 2009 04:01 AM

Awesome work! I gotta try it tmr.
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Oct 14 04:46:02 2009 jim, 14 Oct 2009 04:46 AM

Thanks for posting this. I tried doing this earlier and it was too complicated so I gave up.
I tried copy and pasting the above into a file and then running it. It got to this point and then failed.
=====================
checking for BABL... yes
checking for GEGL... configure: error: Package requirements (gegl >= 0.1.0) were not met:

Requested 'gegl >= 0.1.0' but version of GEGL is 0.0.22

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEGL_CFLAGS
and GEGL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Configure failed or did not finish!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[sudo] password for jim:
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

=====================
The problem with the "Requested 'gegl >= 0.1.0' but version of GEGL is 0.0.22" is what I ran into previously. I am on UBUNTU 9.04.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again for posting this
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Oct 14 05:22:59 2009 Dan, 14 Oct 2009 05:22 AM

there is an error in the order of compiling, you FIRST NEED to compile BALB then GEGL! so Jim, try that first.. =)
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Oct 14 14:21:12 2009 redforce, 14 Oct 2009 02:21 PM

This was the previous order. I think that it has changed and now GEGL has to be compiled first. Makes not so much sense, but I think it is like this. I'm really confused now ...

However, don't copy it into a script but copy the commands into the terminal blockwise. If it doesn't work in this oder, just swap the GEGL and BABL compile block.
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Oct 14 15:48:05 2009 Jim, 14 Oct 2009 03:48 PM

I did the steps individually and found that "ruby" was not installed so I installed that and then the compliles completed. I started gimp and got a message

"Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Gimp started and seem to run ok though.
Thanks again.
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Thu Oct 15 05:55:05 2009 Fernando, 15 Oct 2009 05:55 AM

I just built it, compiling BABL first then GEGL, and am now enjoying single-window mode :D.

Thanks for the tutorial!
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Sun Oct 18 04:30:21 2009 Dan, 18 Oct 2009 04:30 AM

i recall that you should FIRST compile Babl as GEGL needs it in order to work, and as posted up there, a common error would appear saying that the dependency is not met. Could someone change that?
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Tue Oct 20 10:51:26 2009 mandrux, 20 Oct 2009 10:51 AM

Thanks a lot for the tutorial!!
Was the only one that worked running
LinuxMint 7 (Jaunty based).
I agree the order: glib> gtk2> babl> gegl> gimp
You need also Python-dev.(in my case)
If you have trouble to compile:
#sudo make uninstall (for every source)
#sudo rm -rf /opt/gimp-2.7
#start again in the right order
Ciao
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Thu Oct 29 21:08:46 2009 Shorny, 29 Oct 2009 09:08 PM

For JIM's eror(I have same error kubuntu 9.10) you set before install GEGL:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Tue Nov 3 15:13:40 2009 Brian142, 03 Nov 2009 03:13 PM

Great Tutorial worked as stated on Ubuntu 9.10 x64 version (gnome desktop).
I followed the tutorial and copied and pasted each code line in the same sequence as instructed and it worked first time.
Thanks again for an excellent tutorial
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Thu Nov 5 07:48:04 2009 Bob K., 05 Nov 2009 07:48 AM

When will 2.8 be released?. November or December 2009
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Thu Nov 5 11:23:16 2009 redforce, 05 Nov 2009 11:23 AM

"It will be released when it's finished" - there is no release plan in the way other products have it. I guess it will be released in December or January...
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Jan 6 19:09:47 2010 hamacker, 06 Jan 2010 07:09 PM

complementing yout article, create a shortcut running 'gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gimp27.desktop' and paste this content :

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=GIMP Image Editor 2.7
GenericName=Image Editor 2.7
Comment=Create images and edit photographs
Exec="/opt/gimp-2.7/bin/gimp-2.7"
Icon=gimp
Terminal=false
Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;RasterGraphics;GTK;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=application/postscript;application/pdf;image/bmp;image/g3fax;image/gif;image/x-fits;image/pcx;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-psd;image/x-sgi;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;image/x-xwindowdump;image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;image/tiff;image/jpeg;image/x-psd;image/png;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;image/svg+xml;image/x-wmf;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gimp20
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gimp20
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Sat Feb 6 11:51:02 2010 Sslz, 06 Feb 2010 11:51 AM

I can't continue with the installation because i compile babl and then i get an error message and i can't continue with gegl..

Requested 'babl >= 0.1.2' but version of babl is 0.0.22

What can i do ?
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Thu Feb 11 19:47:14 2010 Partha, 11 Feb 2010 07:47 PM

Make sure that you exported the pkgconfig directory properly: Especially make sure that this is correct:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib/pkgconfig

Can you paste the lines after the line you pasted?
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Tue Mar 2 06:45:49 2010 mik, 02 Mar 2010 06:45 AM

there is something odd with building gegl as of this post.

I had to compiel gegl with make -k and then do make install -k to tell it to just keep on going despite the errors.

Not sure where they cropped up but here is my gegl compile line:

# Fetch, compile, install GEGL
git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/rtaylor/bin/gimp-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc
#make -j3
make -k
#make install -j3
make install -k
cd ..

Hope it helps you. Note the lack of sudoe on make install -k as i am not installing system wide, adjust as required.
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Sat Mar 6 00:02:28 2010 Bob63, 06 Mar 2010 12:02 AM

No matter what I tried, I could not get this to compile on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 (Jaunty).

However, I had been thinking about upgrading my OS anyhow, so I installed LinuxMint 8 Helena, which is based on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). I still had an issue with GEGL, but thanks to mik and his suggestion of changing the make and make install commands to use -k option, I was able to get this to work.

I am not a frequent image creator/editor, but when I do this sort of task, I enjoy working with Gimp. It seems like I learn something new all the time. I think I will really like the single-window mode rather than fussing with three separate windows. I'm really looking forward to Gimp 2.8.

Thanks for the HOW-TO, and all the comments.
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Wed Jun 9 01:50:51 2010 jag, 09 Jun 2010 01:50 AM

I've followed this tutorial for install gimp devel on ubuntu 10.04. Works normally, but I don't have many export and input formats, as jpeg, tiff, png, etc. When it finishes the ./autogen.sh, all is ok and include all formats. Any idea? Thanks
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Sat Jun 26 03:02:11 2010 Pete, 26 Jun 2010 03:02 AM

you now need glib 2.24
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.24/glib-2.24.0.tar.bz2
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-10-14/compiling-gimp-27-git-ubuntu-904-910.html Sat Jun 26 03:12:03 2010 Pete, 26 Jun 2010 03:12 AM

And also gtk 2.20.0
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.20/gtk+-2.20.0.tar.bz2

you might want to attempt configuring GIMP first so that it tells you what versions of things it wants

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