How to downgrade from a failed GIMP 2.7 install to GIMP2.6 in Ubuntu Intrepid

So you’re excited to upgrade from a development release of GIMP 2.7 to make use of it’s new features. But luck hasn’t been so good you, broke your stable GIMP install, stuck with the problem on the compilation, some pertinent libraries (gegl, libbabl, etc..) just magically gone away or cannot be used. You’re in the abyss of confusion on how to resurrect GIMP.

Now you decided to downgrade from 2.7 to 2.6 . Hmmm… was it easy? I hope so. But with GIMP running in Linux, particulary in Ubuntu, it’s been a struggle but it’s possible.

Let me share with you my discovery on how to downgrade from a failed GIMP 2.7 compilation/installation to GIMP 2.6 in Ubuntu Intrepid.

This workaround is a try-at-your-own-risk basis so please backup necessary data and be cautious if want to try this out.

(STEP 1)

Open up a terminal ( ALT + F2 then type gnome-terminal )

(STEP 2)

sudo apt-get purge libgimp2.0 libbabl-0.0-0 gimp gimp-data gegl libgegl-0.0-0

- Let’s us delete GIMP and all related libraries like gegl & babl

(STEP 3)

sudo apt-get autoremove

- This will permanently remove the above libraries in your software repository

(STEP 4)

sudo apt-get autoclean

- Now that command cleans up your software repository

(STEP 5)

mkdir ~/temp && cd ~/temp

- We just created a folder named temp then get inside it. This is where we store the downloaded libraries which will be done in the next step

(STEP 6)

cat > gimp_libs.txt

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/678374/web_files/apg/gegl_0.0.18-1_i386.deb

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/678374/web_files/apg/libbabl-0.0-0-dev_0.0.22-1_i386.deb

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/678374/web_files/apg/libbabl-0.0-0_0.0.22-1_i386.deb

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/678374/web_files/apg/libgegl-0.0-0_0.0.18-1_i386.deb

- We placed the links into a filename called gimp_libs.txt. Just a note: press the enter key in every link. After the last link, just press enter then CTRL + C.

Another note: (Thanks Rore) The deb files you get isn’t an official repository. I just happen to have a backup of these libraries on my Ubuntu Intrepid apt cache directory then I uploaded to Dropbox.

(STEP 7)

wget -i gimp_libs.txt

- We used the wget command to download links supplied in the text file.

(STEP 8 )

sudo dpkg -i /usr/lib/*.deb

- Installed all the deb packages

(STEP 9)

sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-plugin-registry

- We just install GIMP 2.6. What a juicy downgraded . Now you can get back to production work.

(STEP)

Enjoy. Really.

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