Gimp-painter 2.7 compilation

12.04 based system, do it at your own risk First remove all Gimp 2.6 of your system with your package manager. Then, follow this ( enter lines in color in terminal one by one ) first, dependencies : sudo apt-get build-dep gimp sudo apt-get install cvs subversion git-core mercurial sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev valac-0.16 graphviz ruby1.9.1-dev liblua5.1-0-dev sudo apt-get install libopenexr-dev libopenraw-dev libexiv2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libgs-dev libjasper-dev sudo apt-get install checkinstall folder creation ( for build ): cd /opt sudo mkdir gimp-painter-2.7/ sudo chmod -R 777 gimp-painter-2.7/ prefix : export PATH=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7/bin:$PATH export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7/lib/pkgconfig export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7/lib folder creation ( for source ) : cd mkdir sources cd sources mkdir gimp-painter-2.7 cd gimp-painter-2.7 Last Babl : git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/babl && cd babl ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7 make -j8 && sudo make install -j8 && cd .. Last Gegl : git clone --depth 1 git://git.gnome.org/gegl && cd gegl ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc --without-libavformat make -j8 && sudo make install -j8 && cd .. Gimp-painter 2.7dev : git clone --depth 1 git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/gimp-painter/gimp-painter-2.7.git && cd gimp-painter-2.7 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-painter-2.7 --disable-gtk-doc make -j8 && sudo make install -j8 && cd .. done, if you want to make yourself a launcher : sudo ln /opt/gimp-painter-2.7/bin/gimp-2.8 /usr/bin/gimp-painter then in your launcher (Alt+F2 , or in a terminal ) enter gimp-painter to execute it.