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gabriel
Asked: 2012-05-01 02:56:39 +0800 CST

How to install an application like gimp from terminal and install all the available plugins showed in software center?

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What i want is to run from terminal sudo apt-get install gimp but also install all the available plugins!

So, i tried this sudo apt-get install gimp* BUT this installed all the packages with name gimpblablabla. So which is the right way to do this?

Thanks

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So, from software center i am installing gimp and check all the boxes for what i want! The alternative to it from terminal is sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-plugin-registry gimp-cbmplugs extremetuxracer-gimp-dev?NO right?

Well, that question was not only for gimp but for other applications too!So, i want this for a deeper knowledge of installing from terminal! If i want to list for example the available plugins for gimp what is the way?

I hope it is not so confusing! Thanks very much for your answers!

command-line installation gimp

3 Answers

  1. You need to find out all the package names that you want to install and then you can put them behind gimp (with a space in between)

    So ...

    sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-flegita 
gimp-gmic gimp-gutenprint gimp-plugin-registry gimp-cbmplugs 
extremetuxracer-gimp-dev gvfs-backends xcftools

    Oh and you can leave out gimp (it will install itself due to you installing gimp-plugin-registry).

    Addition:

    • gimp-flegita is a plugin to add scanners to gimp
    • gimp-gmic is a pluging to manipulate GREYC's Magic Image Converter
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  2. Best Answer

    You can use 

    apt-cache search gimp

    to find all packages with gimp in the name or short description. You can also then pipe that to grep and search for ones that also mention "plugin":

    apt-cache search gimp | grep plugin
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  3. Gimp plug-ins and extensions ( script-fu ) is different by repositories. Each script-fu or extension written by different authors. So probably orient work to tasks is more right way ...
    Common way is:
    Install Script-Fus 

    cd home/username/.gimp-2.x/scripts
wget <URL to script filename.tar/.tar.bz2/.tar.gz etc>
sudo tar -xvfz <filename.tar/.tar.bz2/.tar.gz etc>
sudo rm -rf <filename.tar/.tar.bz2/.tar.gz etc>

    You can check and get links and filenames here:
    GIMP Plugin Registry Glossary

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