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You’ve decided to come join the fun in GIMP land, and we’re excited to have you! Now the question is, how do you get GIMP up and running on your computer?

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It’s really easy to Install GIMP. Here’s the basic idea:

First, you’ll need to know just a little information about your computer. Basically, you’ll need to know what operating system you’re running, and if GIMP is compatible with it.
Then, you’ll find the correct version of GIMP for your operating system at GIMP.org.
Last, you’ll download GIMP, and run the installer.

Now that you have the basic idea, here are the instructions in more detail.

Install GIMP For Windows:

At the time of writing, you’ll need Windows 7 or newer to run the latest stable version of GIMP.

If you’re on Windows, and you don’t know what operating system you’re using (ie Windows 7, Windows XP, etc.) follow these instructions to find out which operating system you’re running.

Now, go to the official GIMP repository and click the Download link at the top of the page to download GIMP. This version of GIMP will work with any version of Windows, as long as it’s Windows 7 or newer.

While GIMP is available from a lot of sites (since it’s free and open source software), I recommend only downloading it from the official repository at GIMP.org to make sure you don’t get stuck with any malware.

When the download is complete, open up the package, and run the installer. Follow any instructions on the windows that appear.

That’s it! You’re finished installing GIMP! The first time you start GIMP, it may take a few minutes to get going, because there’s a lot of new stuff to load. Just be patient, it will start eventually.

Install GIMP For Mac:

To install the latest version of GIMP on a Mac, at the time of writing you’ll need OS X Yosemite or newer.

Not sure which version of Mac OS you’re using? Follow these instructions to find out.

Now, head over to the official GIMP download page, and click it’s link to download GIMP to your computer.

When the files are finished downloading, open up the Zip file, then open the installer to begin installing GIMP. Follow any directions you’re given in the windows that pop up.

GIMP will now be installed on your computer! The first time you start GIMP, it may take a few minutes to get going, because there’s a lot of new stuff to load. Just be patient, it will start eventually.

Have Fun!

Now that GIMP is installed, you’re ready to get started editing! You can use GIMP to open and edit any image file that’s on your computer.

There’s plenty more GIMP help where this came from. I mean, literally, where this came from. HowToGIMP.com has a growing library of easy to understand, plain English GIMP tutorials and videos to help you learn GIMP faster.

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This is a read-only list on gimpusers.com so this discussion thread is read-only, too.

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GIMP on Mac OS X	Sven Neumann	26 Dec 18:59
GIMP on Mac OS X	Robert L Krawitz	26 Dec 19:27
GIMP on Mac OS X	Sven Neumann	26 Dec 20:06
GIMP on Mac OS X	Terje Tjervaag	26 Dec 21:11
GIMP on Mac OS X	Sven Neumann	26 Dec 21:49
GIMP on Mac OS X	Daniel Egger	26 Dec 23:16
GIMP on Mac OS X	Manish Singh	27 Dec 09:39
GIMP on Mac OS X	Hans Breuer	03 Jan 21:20
GIMP on Mac OS X	Manish Singh	03 Jan 21:43
GIMP on Mac OS X	Sven Neumann	21 Jan 15:33
GIMP on Mac OS X	Jakub Steiner	27 Jan 23:46

2003-12-26 18:59:57 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

GIMP on Mac OS X

Hi,

since the subject of porting GTK+ to Mac OS X came up and GIMP wasmentioned in this context, I'd like to say one or two things aboutGIMP (namely GIMP-1.3/2.0) on Mac OS X.

I don't use Mac OS X myself but I regulary get the chance to watchpeople using it and to talk to them. Lately I even got involved inwriting software for it. My impression is that in order to make GIMP asuccess on Mac OS X, it isn't that important to have a GTK+ port thatruns natively on Quartz. Mac OS X nowadays ships with a decent Xserver that integrates quite nicely into the Aqua desktop (there aresome issues here but they could be solved). If you install Xcore (theMac OS X development environment) you get Darwin ports which closelyresembles the well known BSD ports system. With this setup it isamazingly easy to get GIMP up and running. All you do is to enter'ports install gimp' and leave your Mac alone for some time while itcompiles and installs all the necessary software. This gives yougimp-1.2.5. GIMP-1.3 isn't included in the ports system yet but Iexpect this to happen soon after we do the 2.0 release. Perhaps we caneven speed this up if someone contributes a ports file for 1.3. Theprerequisites are certainly there already. 'ports install gtk2' worksflawlessly and provides you with GTK+ version 2.2.3 and recentversions of all the software it depends on.

Porting GTK2 to Quartz could bring some improvements but it isn't aprerequisite for a good user experience of The GIMP on Mac OS X. Theone thing that is a lot more important at the moment is to fix bug#102058:

The fact that our shared memory implementation doesn't work on Mac OSX makes our plug-ins run unreasonably slow. This will hurt the userexperience a lot more than widgets being drawn by an X11 server whichis available, working, supported and fast. So if you think abouthelping to push GIMP-1.3/2.0 on Mac OS X, you should consider to helpus to implement shared memory using mmap or using POSIX shm.

Sven

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2003-12-26 19:27:43 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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From: Sven Neumann
Date: 26 Dec 2003 18:59:57 +0100

I don't use Mac OS X myself but I regulary get the chance to watch people using it and to talk to them. Lately I even got involved in writing software for it. My impression is that in order to make GIMP a success on Mac OS X, it isn't that important to have a GTK+ port that runs natively on Quartz. Mac OS X nowadays ships with a decent X server that integrates quite nicely into the Aqua desktop (there are some issues here but they could be solved). If you install Xcore (the Mac OS X development environment) you get Darwin ports which closely resembles the well known BSD ports system. With this setup it is amazingly easy to get GIMP up and running. All you do is to enter 'ports install gimp' and leave your Mac alone for some time while it compiles and installs all the necessary software. This gives you gimp-1.2.5. GIMP-1.3 isn't included in the ports system yet but I expect this to happen soon after we do the 2.0 release. Perhaps we can even speed this up if someone contributes a ports file for 1.3. The prerequisites are certainly there already. 'ports install gtk2' works flawlessly and provides you with GTK+ version 2.2.3 and recent versions of all the software it depends on.

One comment I've seen reading through various OS X forums aboutGimp-Print is that the packaging is important. An experienced Macperson built an OS X package for us that runs a traditional OS Xinstaller, and people appreciate not being forced to use the commandline. Even having to type 'ports install gimp' -- or more likely'sudo ports install gimp' -- will turn off the hardened Macintosh usercommunity. These folks are even more command-line averse than Windowsusers.

If you want acceptance on OS X, I *strongly* suggest doing a properdisk image package (a .dmg file is a filesystem image) that installseverything required (gtk, gdk, glib, all the plugins, and then doesall of the necessary configuration). I also recommend building abinary package; compiling requires installation of the developer tools(400 MB download) and is quite slow.

2003-12-26 20:06:17 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

GIMP on Mac OS X

Hi,

Robert L Krawitz writes:

I hadn't this impression but most probably I don't know the typicalMac user...

One good thing about the Darwin ports system is that it's trivial tobuild a DMG image from a port. So if we get gimp-2.0 into the portssystem we instantly have a way to build a full-featured Mac OS Xinstaller from it.

Sven

2003-12-26 21:11:06 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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On Dec 26, 2003, at 7:27 PM, Robert L Krawitz wrote:

I couldn't have agreed more with this. On advising fellow OS X users I try very very hard to find alternative solutions to having them do something from the command line. It is simply an obstacle most Mac users are willing to live without.

..and, might I add, even an installer package is something the average OS X user prefers not to see. The application installation method that is preferred is simply '1. open the disk image, 2. Drag the application to whatever folder you want to keep it in, 3. Run'I'm not suggesting this could or should be done with the Gimp, I'm just trying to say that if general acceptance of the Gimp as a viable Photoshop alternative is the goal, rather than just an application for the recent switchers coming from unix or linux, the application needs an easy installation procedure that won't require anything other than simple short instructions.

That said, I have 1.3.23 running on my Powerbook, in OS X, and with the Industrial GTK theme and a bit of fiddling with the font sizes, as well as some patience when loading filters (ref. Sven's mail in this thread) it looks and behaves quite OS X like and is more than usable. I'd even go as far as saying it actually looks beautiful, an expression I have not used a lot when comparing X11 apps to 'native' apps.Thus, I agree with Sven on the fact that a full port of GTK+2 might not be a requirement at all.

I think making the installation routine as simple as possible is sufficient.

2003-12-26 21:49:47 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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Hi,

there's another thing I forgot to mention that might be worth to lookinto when it comes to GIMP on Mac OS X. The new compositing code thatHelvetix added already provides the framework for making use ofAltivec instructions. If someone has access to a G4/G5 and has someexperience with this stuff, it shouldn't be hard to add Altivec codefor the most common compositing routines.

Sven

2003-12-26 23:16:05 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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Am Fre, den 26.12.2003 schrieb Sven Neumann um 21:49:

All pixel data needs to be aligned on 128bit boundaries to be useful forAltiVec. Last time I looked we couldn't even ensure 32bit alignment(which means that every major platform suffers a lot). While it ispossible to realign unaligned data with AltiVec, this is not veryefficient for small amounts or non-continuous regions for simpleoperations.

2003-12-27 09:39:45 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

GIMP on Mac OS X

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

I just checked in an POSIX shm tile transport implementation. I'd likesomeone on OS X to test it, since I'm not 100% sure how POSIX compliant OS Xis, but I'm reasonably sure it works.

It was rather trivial to do, I'm surprised no OS X user took the initiativeto fix this long ago.

-Yosh

2004-01-03 21:20:56 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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On OS X.3 it's really that simple. Install X11, XCode, X11dev and maybe BSD tools
to get cvs; get darwinports as described on www.opendarwin.org. Than (after
making dist on Linux to get recent cvs gimp, should work with gimp-1.3.25.tar.gz,
when it is available ;-) :

hbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ port install gtk2hbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ port install libart_lgpl(and maybe some few more I don't remember)

hbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ export CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/includehbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/includehbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib

hbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-print
(there is gimpprint-config installed but the corresponding headers are missing)

hbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ makehbibook:~/gimp-1.3.24 hb$ sudo make install

Many ...ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _locale_charset... and it almost works !

Am 27.12.2003 um 09:39 schrieb Manish Singh:

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

I just checked in an POSIX shm tile transport implementation. I'd likesomeone on OS X to test it, since I'm not 100% sure how POSIX compliant OS X
is, but I'm reasonably sure it works.

The C code appears to work, but the configure check does not :

configure:15715: checking for shm_open in -lrtconfigure:15746: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall conftest.c -lrt >&5ld: can't locate file for: -lrt

apparently shm_open() is available by libc.dylib - it compiles without any
extra lib (checked by simply replacing -lrt with -lc, real fixing configure is
definitely out of my scope ;)

Thanks, Hans

2004-01-03 21:43:01 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:20:56PM +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:

Am 27.12.2003 um 09:39 schrieb Manish Singh:

I just checked in an POSIX shm tile transport implementation. I'd likesomeone on OS X to test it, since I'm not 100% sure how POSIX compliant OS X
is, but I'm reasonably sure it works.

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The C code appears to work, but the configure check does not :

configure:15715: checking for shm_open in -lrtconfigure:15746: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall conftest.c -lrt >&5ld: can't locate file for: -lrt

apparently shm_open() is available by libc.dylib - it compiles without any
extra lib (checked by simply replacing -lrt with -lc, real fixing configure is
definitely out of my scope ;)

Figures. POSIX requires shm_open() to be in librt, hence my questioningof OS X's POSIX compliance was not unfounded. ;)

I'll check in a fixed configure script shortly. Please test it out.

-Yosh

2004-01-21 15:33:22 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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Hi,

I'm picking up on an older thread here since there's some good news onthe MacOS X subject that should be shared. Since this topic wasbrought up last, Yosh added a POSIX shared memory implementation thatis used on Darwin. Recently GIMP-2.0pre packages appeared for fink(http://mirror.student.iastate.edu/) and today I've been told thatGIMP-2.0pre2 has found its way into darwinports(http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/).

What I heard so far these packages work flawlessly and this means thatwe can say that MacOS X is a fully supported platform for GIMP-2.0.Thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen.

Sven

2004-01-27 23:46:40 UTC (over 16 years ago)permalink

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On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:33, Sven Neumann wrote:

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Hi,

What I heard so far these packages work flawlessly and this means thatwe can say that MacOS X is a fully supported platform for GIMP-2.0.Thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen.

Great news! Some people approached me when I did the FOSDEM GIMP talk onOSX and were very interested in running GIMP on their MacOS. I hopeGIMP2 will make a big splash among MacOS users.

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cheers