Install and Compile Gimp 2.7 in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10)

This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken. If you need to get work done, please use the stable version, GIMP 2.6. to more information, here

Gimp in ubuntu 9.10 version is 2.6, to upgrade the previous version to the version of gimp 2.7 is as follows:

Login ass root and add your sources.list repository by type :

$ sudo su

$ gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add this line :

deb-src http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted

Update your sources.list by type :

$ apt-get update

Install Build esential by type :

$ apt-get build-dep gimp

Download Sources gimp 2.7 here  then extract after you downloaded by type :

$ tar -xjf gimp-2.7.0.tar.bz2

Install and Compile this package by type :

$ ./configure

$ make

$ make install

The last one with your user password. Notice that you can install it as normal user too, by specifying a prefix in your home directory for example and including the bin directory in your $PATH variable:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/USER/usr

$ make

$ make install

Note : No super User (root) needed in this case

Happy Testing...

Sources : Here