GIMP is an image processing software, allowing users to create and edit Photoshop-like images on Windows.
To install GIMP on various Linux distributions, you can follow the steps below:
Install GIMP 2.8 on Linux
This method is not only used to install GIMP version 2.8. Incidentally at the time of writing this article, the latest version of GIMP is 2.8, so if there is a newer version it will be installed.
Ubuntu, Debian
apt-get install gimp
Or users can also install it via the Ubuntu Software Center, it includes the latest version of GIMP from the PPA.
OpenSUSE
yast -i gimp
or
zipper in gimp
Fedora
yum install gimp
Mandriva
urpmi gimp
Running GIMP
After GIMP is installed, we can run GIMP through the terminal or launcher if on ubuntu.
Through the terminal, run the command:
gimp
Now GIMP 2.8 can be used on your Linux. Good luck, good job.