Introduction to GIMP
The GIMP package contains the GNU
Image Manipulation Program. This is useful for photo retouching,
image composition and image authoring.
Package Information
Additional Downloads
GIMP Dependencies
Required
GTK+-2.8.20, libart_lgpl-2.3.17, and XML::Parser-2.34
Recommended
Gimp-Print-4.2.7, libjpeg-6b, and LibTIFF-3.8.2
Optional
libmng-1.0.9, librsvg-2.14.4, AAlib-1.4rc5, little cms-1.15, libexif-0.6.13, libgtkhtml-2.11.0 (required to
build the help system browser plugin), libxslt-1.1.17, PyGTK
(requires Python-2.4.4),
GTK-Doc-1.6, an MTA (that provides a sendmail program), ALSA-1.0.13, and libwmf
Optional (for Building
Documentation from the Help Tarball)
libxslt-1.1.17, DocBook XML DTD-4.4, DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.69.1, and
ImageMagick-6.2.8-0 (only
needed to optimize PNG images)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gimp
Installation of GIMP
Install GIMP by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--datadir=/usr/share &&
make
To test the results, issue: make
check.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.12 &&
install -v -m644 docs/{Wilber*,keybindings.txt,quick_reference.ps} \
/usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.12
The gimp-help tarball contains a help
system designed for use with external web browsers, the internal
GIMP help browser, and HTML
renderers. The tarball only contains the XML sources, so you will
need the xsltproc
program from libxslt-1.1.17
to build the HTML files.
If you downloaded the gimp-help tarball,
change directories out of the GIMP
source tree to the root of your build directory. Now unpack the
gimp-help tarball and change directories
to the root of the newly created source tree (as an unprivileged
user). Issue the following commands to install the help files:
./configure &&
make
In order to use the --enable-convert
parameter to the configure script, you must have the
convert program from
ImageMagick-6.2.8-0
installed.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--datadir=/usr/share: This
parameter is required because there is a subtle bug in Autoconf-2.59 which causes the
configure script to
mishandle the datarootdir variable.
Fortunately, passing --datadir=
works around the problem.
--disable-print: This option will disable
print support and is necessary if Gimp-Print is not installed.
--without-libjpeg: This option is necessary
if libjpeg is not installed.
--without-libtiff: This option is necessary
if libtiff is not installed.
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild the API documentation.
Configuring GIMP
/etc/gimp/2.0/* and ~/.gimp-2.0/gimprc
Configuration
Information
GIMP executes a configuration
wizard for each user upon their initial use of the program.
GIMP executes the
mozilla web browser
by default to view the help files. If you do not have
Mozilla, or prefer a different
web browser, you can set a new system value in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc. Execute the following
command as the root user, replacing
<browser> with your
preferred web browser:
echo '(web-browser "<browser> %s")' >> /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc
Contents
Installed
Programs: gimp, gimp-2.2,
gimp-remote, gimp-remote-2.2, and gimptool-2.0
Installed
Libraries: libgimp-2.0.so,
libgimpbase-2.0.so, libgimpcolor-2.0.so, libgimpmath-2.0.so,
libgimpmodule-2.0.so, libgimpthumb-2.0.so, libgimpui-2.0.so,
libgimpwidgets-2.0.so, and many other modules and plugin
libraries
Installed
Directories: /etc/gimp,
/usr/include/gimp-2.0, /usr/lib/gimp,
/usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.12, /usr/share/gimp and
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgimp{,base,color,math,module,thumb,widgets}
Short Descriptions
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gimp
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is a symbolic link to gimp-2.2.
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gimp-2.2
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is an image manipulation program. It works with a variety
of image formats and provides a large selection of tools.
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gimp-remote
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is a symbolic link to gimp-remote-2.2.
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gimp-remote-2.2
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is a small utility that tells a running GIMP to open a local or remote image
file.
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gimptool-2.0
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is a tool that can build plug-ins or scripts and install
them if they are distributed in one source file.
gimptool-2.0 can also be used
by programs that need to know what libraries and
include-paths GIMP was
compiled with.
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libgimp-2.0.so
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provides C bindings for GIMP's Procedural Database (PDB)
which offers an interface to core functions and to
functionality provided by plug-ins.
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libgimpbase-2.0.so
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provides the C functions for basic GIMP functionality such as
determining enumeration data types, gettext translation,
determining GIMP's
version number and capabilities, handling data files and
accessing the environment.
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libgimpcolor-2.0.so
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provides the C functions relating to RGB, HSV and CMYK
colors as well as converting colors between different
color models and performing adaptive supersampling on an
area.
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libgimpmath-2.0.so
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contains C functions which provide mathematical
definitions and macros, manipulate 3x3 transformation
matrices, set up and manipulate vectors and the MD5
message-digest algorithm.
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libgimpmodule-2.0.so
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provides the C functions which implements module loading
using GModule and keeps a list of GimpModule's found in a
given searchpath.
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libgimpthumb-2.0.so
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provides the C functions for handling GIMP's thumbnail objects.
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libgimpui-2.0.so
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contains the GIMP common
user interface functions.
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libgimpwidgets-2.0.so
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contains GIMP and
GTK widget creation and
manipulation functions.
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Last updated on 2006-07-24 19:32:31 -0500
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