How to install Gimp on Ubuntu via command terminal

Gimp is the best open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop to run on Linux operating systems. The latest version while writing this article was Gimp 2.10.8. You cannot only install it via Ubuntu terminal but also on other Linux OS such as Linux Mint, Redhat, Fedora, CentOS, Puppy, etc. including Windows and MacOS.  It is a great free and open source graphic designing and image editing software for photographers and developers.

However, here we are only showing you how to install the GIMP on Ubuntu 18.04, 17.04, 16.04. 15.04, 12.04, 14.04; Ubuntu mate, Linux Mint, Debian or other Ubuntu based OS such as Elementary OS Freya.

Gimp install on ubuntu via command Terminal

1. Go to Ubuntu Linux operating system.
2. Open the command terminal.
3. Add GIMP PPA Repository by this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
4. Run the System update command: sudo apt-get update
5. Install GIMP on terminal using: sudo apt-get install gimp
6. If you want to uninstall gimp on ubuntu, just fire this command: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
7. Go to Ubuntu Applications.
8. Click on the GIMP icon.
9. And start using the GIMP to edit and create graphics.

Full Tutorial with screenshots:

Step 1: Open the Ubuntu Terminal and Add the repository to install the GIMP. Type the below command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

After executing the above command something like below will appear. Press ENTER when it asks for.

Output:

h2s@h2s-VirtualBox:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
This PPA is for Ubuntu >=18.04 and Linux Mint derivates

Installing: 
open a terminal and type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

Removing:
open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
Many thanks to David Tschumperlé for his masterpiece called G'MIC. 
http://gmic.eu/
Look for the gmic packages!
We should not forget the Gimp crew!
http://www.gimp.org/

And many, many thanks to http://siduction.org. They helped me on my first steps making the Gimp packages.
I promise as long as I live this PPA will never die and the most recent packages will for ever be. ;-)
Regards
Otto Meier

If you had a really problem:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/otto06217

Some stats:

https://kesselgulasch.org/ppastats/gimp/

I had to kick out the gimp-plugin-registry for now due to massive incompatibility with Gimp 2.10+.

More info: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

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Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu bionic InRelease
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Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
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Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.4 kB]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [8,480 B]
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Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [2,732 B]
Fetched 35.1 kB in 6s (6,084 B/s) 
Reading package lists... Done

Step 2: Run the Ubuntu System update command, so that it can update repo in its database.

sudo apt install update

Step 3: Now use the below single command to install the GIMP 2.10 on Ubuntu 18.04.

sudo apt-get install gimp

When you use the above for the GIMP installation, it will ask for your permission to install, just type Y and hit the ENTER button.

The output of the above command:

h2s@h2s-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgovirt-common libgovirt2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
cpp-7 gcc-7-base gcc-8-base gimp-data i965-va-driver
libaacs0 libamd2 libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil55
libbabl-0.1-0 libbdplus0 libblas3 libbluray2 libcamd2
libcc1-0 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libchromaprint1
libcrystalhd3 libde265-0 libgcc1 libgegl-0.4-0
libgfortran4 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgomp1 libgsm1
libheif1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 liblapack3 libllvm7
libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0
libquadmath0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsoxr0
libssh-gcrypt-4 libstdc++6 libswresample2 libswscale4
libumfpack5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libx264-152 libx265-146 libxvidcore4
libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers mypaint-brushes python-gobject-2
python-gtk2 va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all
Suggested packages:
gcc-7-locales gimp-help-en | gimp-help gimp-data-extras
i965-va-driver-shaders libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd
python-gobject-2-dbg python-gtk2-doc libvdpau-va-gl1
nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp gimp-data i965-va-driver libaacs0 libamd2
libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil55 libbabl-0.1-0
libbdplus0 libblas3 libbluray2 libcamd2 libccolamd2
libcholmod3 libchromaprint1 libcrystalhd3 libde265-0
libgegl-0.4-0 libgfortran4 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgsm1
libheif1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 liblapack3 libllvm7
libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0
libquadmath0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsoxr0
libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libumfpack5
libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libx264-152 libx265-146 libxvidcore4
libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers mypaint-brushes python-gobject-2
python-gtk2 va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all
The following packages will be upgraded:
cpp-7 gcc-7-base gcc-8-base libcc1-0 libgcc1 libgomp1
libstdc++6
7 upgraded, 57 newly installed, 0 to remove and 253 not upgraded.
Need to get 58.1 MB/81.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 329 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

 

Step 4: Finally you will see the installation is done. Now go the Ubuntu Applications and click on the GIMP icon.

(Optional step) If you are not satisfied with it and want to uninstall gimp on ubuntu then follow the below command:

For GIMP uninstalltion use this one:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

And t remove the GIMP repository execute this one on terminal:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

In this way, we can install and uninstall GIMP 2.10  version on Ubuntu 18.04 or older versions.

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