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Asked: 2018-12-23 11:00:32 +0800 CST

How to go back to Gimp2.6 (2018)

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With older versions of ubuntu this questions answers still worked. Now they don't.

The repositories aren't reachable and building from source fails because of dependency errors.

I've found this PPA, but it isn't working either:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgegl-0.0-0 : Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package

How do you go back to the last sane version of gimp: 2.6?

software-installation gimp

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Add Malcolm Scott's repository using: 

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:malcscott/gimp-2.6

    gimp depends on libpng12-0 which is not available in official repository of Bionic. You can download it from Xenial packages download page or direct download. Install it using;

    sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb

    Now install gimp using

    sudo apt install gimp
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