{"id":304,"date":"2009-03-22T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2020-09-12T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:30:45","slug":"an-abundance-of-gimp-synergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2009\/03\/an-abundance-of-gimp-synergy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Abundance of GIMP Synergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Installing GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-307\" style=\"margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"wilber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wilber.png\" alt=\"wilber\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>Well, I got tired of being stuck with the version 2.4 of the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) that ships with Ubuntu 8.04.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s old, it uses the old window system that I can&#8217;t stand anymore, and version 2.6 (the current version) fixes tons of more issues that it has.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can&#8217;t just go to your package manager and add it &#8212; Ubuntu locks program versions when it ships (for example, the latest version of GIMP available to Ubuntu 8.04 users is 2.4).\u00c2\u00a0 This is done for compatibility reasons &#8212; if version 2.4 of the GIMP works fine when Ubuntu 8.04 ships, then they lock those versions together. That way, it&#8217;s always guaranteed to work, no matter when Ubuntu is installed in the future.<\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;re sites likes <a href=\"http:\/\/getdeb.net\">GetDeb.net<\/a> which lets developers upload installer files of popular programs for Ubuntu, so that users of older versions of Ubuntu can install new programs.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/release\/4054\">GetDeb page for GIMP 2.6<\/a> and downloaded all the files you need to install GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <a class=\"app_download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/download\/4054\/4\"> libgegl-0.0-0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <a class=\"app_download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/download\/4054\/3\"> libbabl-0.0-0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a class=\"app_download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/download\/4054\/2\">gimp-data<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a class=\"app_download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/download\/4054\/1\">libgimp2.0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <a class=\"app_download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/download\/4054\/0\"> gimp<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Usually, in 99% of situations, you just download these files and install them, even on Ubuntu. However, on Ubuntu 8.04 with GIMP 2.6, there&#8217;s a bit of a problem &#8212; you have to force these files to install.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you can do fancy command-line kung-fu if you want to, but you shouldn&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to on Ubuntu, so I&#8217;ve included a file here for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/install\">gimp-2.6-install-ubuntu-8.04<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just save that file, put it along with the 5 files you downloaded from GetDeb.net into their own folder, and then run that file. (Make it executable in its properties, and then double-click on it).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>(I got the inspiration for that install file from <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/area42\/blog\/gimp-2-6-3-update#comment7219365\">this blog post here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<h3>The Synergy of Mac, Linux, and Windows<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-308\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/logo.gif\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"216\" height=\"77\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always heard about the program called <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net\/\">Synergy<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve never used it, and that&#8217;s a damn shame.<\/p>\n<p>Have a lot of computers side by side that you manage all at once? Tired of going from one keyboard and mouse, to another, even though the computers you&#8217;re working with are side by side?<\/p>\n<p>Then download <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy2.sourceforge.net\/\">Synergy<\/a>, configure it, and run it on all of your computers (Mac, Linux, <em>and<\/em> Windows).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. Honestly. It&#8217;ll take you about 20 minutes and you&#8217;ll spend the next few hours wondering how you ever lived without it.<\/p>\n<p>It treats all of your computers like one giant desktop &#8212; just move your mouse &#8220;off&#8221; of the side of your monitor towards your other computer, and your mouse will instantly reappear on <em>that<\/em> computer&#8217;s monitor. If you need to type something, you type it with the first computer&#8217;s monitor. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, a caveat &#8212; on Mac and Linux, the setup isn&#8217;t as streamlined and easy as it is on Linux, so there&#8217;s a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/quicksynergy.sourceforge.net\/\">QuickSynergy<\/a> that can do it for you. If you&#8217;re using Ubuntu, it&#8217;s already in the repositories &#8212; just go to your &#8220;Add\/Remove Applications&#8221; menu item, and install QuickSynergy from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 Well, I got tired of being stuck with the version 2.4 of the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) that ships with Ubuntu 8.04.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s old, it uses the old window system that I can&#8217;t stand anymore, and version 2.6 (the current version) fixes tons of more issues that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11,18,15],"tags":[139,140],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-linux","category-programming","category-science-and-technology","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-4U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}