gimp-appimage VS Arch-Deployer

And the issue report about getting this into the official build - at the time this one was filed, this wasn't GitLab CI yet, though this came up during the discussion - is here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/issues/9

From here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ I would suggest trying this the last of the stable https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/download/continuous/GIMP\_AppImage-release-2.10.22-withplugins-x86\_64.AppImage Nothing since then. I do not know what happened to Carmelo, hope he is ok I know this works with kubuntu 20.04, you do need to to downgrade to fuse2

Appimage?

The flatpak Gimp is excellent for the majority of Gimp linux users. It is sandboxed, and to certain extent therefore limited. An example, just a few posts away, is connecting to a scanner using XSane - just not going to work unless someone makes a flatpak xsane Gimp plugin. An appimage is a little more libel, a little hands-on tweaking and most things work. Another advantage is multiple versions, want to easily run a Gimp 2.10.08 appimage (last time n-point deformation worked) or Gimp 2.10.14 (last time seamless clone worked) or a current Gimp 2.99 dev version, then it is possible providing these are available as appimages. End of the day, up to you. Years ago I used to make pre 2.10 appimages from a now defunct 'buntu PPA. Believe me it is not easy. The packages from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ are really clever, using bits from various distros. Sadly Carmelo seems to have vanished, and the packages stalled. I do hope he is ok.

appimage from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage working fine

You'll have to grab an appimage build elsewhere, I'm afraid (https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases looks a little out of date). Someone would need to contributed a recipe for our CI to make those officially.

GIMP 2.10.22 = Very fine open source raster graphics editor.I also recommend putting PhotoGIMP or putting mine configuration files inside ".config/GIMP-Appimage/2.10" it will add Photoshop like extensions to it. You can install through appimage, download from here (please download GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.22-x86_64.AppImage).

The GIMP AppImage is not maintained by the GIMP developers, so it is an "unofficial" package. The person behind this project is Andrea Ferrero, a well-respected member of PIXLS.US community. There are several versions of this AppImage, and the one I recommend is GIMP_AppImage-git-2.10.25-20210610-withplugins-x86_64.AppImage - it is about 3/4 down the listing. https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous

I found an AppImage version which includes support for python 2.7 but I have no clue how to install `numpy` on that image.

Arch2AppImage is useless, just like my Arch-Deployer (Arch2AppImage is inspired by my project, see it's README), I've also created an "issue" on its repository to explain why I've abandoned it, see https://github.com/hanzala123/arch2appimage/issues/25 ).

Hi everybody, I'm the developer of Arch-Deployer and AM Application Manager

I have posted previously that it's possible to go from AUR source ->AppImage -> Firejail with a script like Arch-Deployer for the basis of a secure OS.

Hi, I'm the developer of Arch-Deployer, a script to bulk download Arch Linux packages from the main repositories (and from Chaotic-AUR) with all their dependences to finally compile AppDirs to study (the AppRun script and other internal components) before their exportation in AppImage packages. When I created it, my goal was to create AppImages to upload on my other repository named AM Application Manager, to made all these programs available for all the others GNU/Linux distributions. But I had not taken care of a particular issue: GLIBC compatibility!

If I have time enough, I wanna try to create a script that automatizes all the processes, also for you developers, but my knowledge is limited to the download of packages from Debian and derivatives or from Arch Linux to create these structures, I'm not much good in compiling these programs by myself into a chroot, I'm just an enthusiast.

I have not added support for Chaotic-AUR, you can consult this issue to check the reason. You will most likely need another script to export your programs to the AUR to make them executable on any other distribution (I've already done this for some programs in my other project, "AM", the Application Manager).

https://github.com/ivan-hc/Arch-Deployer I hope you like it.