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GIMP for LinuxIt's very likely your GNU/Linux distribution already comes with a GIMP package. It is a preferred method of installing GIMP, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates.Ubuntu, DebianUbuntu or Debian users can simply run apt-get install gimp to get the latest stable release of GIMP.openSUSESUSE users can install GIMP by running yast -i gimp or zypper in gimp, depending on the distribution version.FedoraSimilarly to the above, Fedora users can install the latest stable GIMP by running yum install gimp.MandrivaMandriva Linux users can install the latest stable GIMP by running urpmi gimp.GIMP for Mac OS X The GIMP team doesn't provide official Mac binaries. You can, however, install GIMP 2.6 easily on the Mac using the packages provided by GIMP on OS X.

Download GIMP 2.6 – Choose a package from the Downloads page

Running GIMP on Mac OS X requires Apple's X11 environment. It is included on the "Optional Installs" package on the OS X install disk. MacportsAn easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. To install gimp using Macports, you simply do sudo port install gimp once you have Macports installed.

Download Macports.

FinkFink is a package repository that offer mostly precompiled binaries. It provides the apt-get command known to e.g. Debian and Ubuntu users, and installing GIMP is as easy as

sudo apt-get 
    install gimp

once you have installed the Fink installer.
If there's no binary package, then fink install gimp will compile GIMP from source.

Download Fink.

GIMP for WindowsThe GIMP team doesn't officially provide any Windows binaries. You can, however, install GIMP easily using the Windows installers by Jernej Simončič.

Download GIMP 2.6.11 – Installer for Windows XP SP2 or later

GIMP User ManualDue to its size, the user manual is not included with the GIMP installers and has been split into language-specific packages. Installer packages are provided by Jernej Simončič:

Chinese Simplified (24.5 MB)

Dutch (24.5 MB)

English (24.5 MB)

French (24.6 MB)

German (28.5 MB)

Italian (25.6 MB)

Japanese (20.9 MB)

Korean (24.0 MB)

Norwegian Nynorsk (26.4 MB)

Polish (24.5 MB)

Russian (24.9 MB)

Spanish (25.4 MB)

Swedish (25.1 MB)

Source for version 2.6 (Stable)

GIMP releases available from gimp.org and its mirrors contain the source code and have to be compiled in order to be installed on your system.

For instructions, how to build GIMP from source code, please refer to the INSTALL file located in the root directory of each archive.

GIMP 2.6.12 is now available at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/. You may want to read the Release Notes for GIMP 2.6.

To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the MD5 sums of the latest releases:

File	MD5 sum
gimp-2.6.0.tar.bz2	`e5ac955fee8b376d431e4693027d7640`
gimp-2.6.1.tar.bz2	`2fa176d1da75575c88b01019d014744d`
gimp-2.6.2.tar.bz2	`3664d12f26447c0edc3f611987b9bf2d`
gimp-2.6.3.tar.bz2	`39c30867511b79391eb9177c86c8b79a`
gimp-2.6.4.tar.bz2	`4e8185e40ab06559ce6dd5ef61b3e83b`
gimp-2.6.5.tar.bz2	`cd13050bc6bde6d8d8fd38eff6276033`
gimp-2.6.6.tar.bz2	`23d880dd09cd62c936ed04666a53f8e4`
gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2	`77ed86a8de9b48587efb24f2b115ad38`
gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2	`a4d9462c9420954824a80c9b1963f9d9`
gimp-2.6.9.tar.bz2	`e5d0cc6f3ce127e51d7f3d3124b16a99`
gimp-2.6.10.tar.bz2	`b92710ad9f1b52fec98554d765473819`
gimp-2.6.11.tar.bz2	`bb2939fe13e54fc7255cef5d097bb5dd`
gimp-2.6.12.tar.bz2	`9f876ee63a0c4a4c83f50f32fb3bbe63`

GAP (the GIMP Animation Package) for GIMP 2.6 and above is available at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.6/gap.

GIMP help files are available at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/.

Please consider using one of the mirrors listed below.

Development snapshots

GIMP 2.7.4 is a snapshot of current development towards GIMP 2.8. The source code is available from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/. Please make sure you read the Release Notes for GIMP 2.7.

To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the MD5 sums of the latest releases:

File	MD5 sum
gimp-2.7.0.tar.bz2	`bd9fb22079a547f1f302c219b1a29fcc`
gimp-2.7.1.tar.bz2	`4932a0a1645ecd5b23ea6155ddda013d`
gimp-2.7.2.tar.bz2	`6996138ab70b0bfebfe9f563284e5f78`
gimp-2.7.3.tar.bz2	`851b55dc4af966e62ef5c8b679bcc623`
gimp-2.7.4.tar.bz2	`bda95a29c3483b8ff458b06b1543f867`

A detailed list of changes in the development branch is available in git.

FTP and Web Mirrors

Australia: ftp://mirrors.wamug.org.au/gimp/ (WAIX only); http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/gimp/ (web access, WAIX only)
Austria: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/
Canada: http://gimp.parentingamerica.com/ (web access); http://gimp.raffsoftware.com/ (web access); http://gimp.skazkaforyou.com/ (web access)
China: http://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn/gimp (web access)
France: http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/gimp/gimp/ (web access); http://gimp.krecio.pl/gimp/ (web access); http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/gimp/ (web access)
Germany: ftp://artfiles.org/gimp.org/; http://artfiles.org/gimp.org/ (web access); http://gimp.cybermirror.org/ (web access); ftp://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/pub/mirrors/www.gimp.org/; http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/www.gimp.org/ (web access); rsync://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/gimp/ (rsync access); ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/; http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ (web access); rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ (rsync access); http://gimp.mywatchinfo.info/ (web access); http://www.online-laptop.com/gimp/ (web access); http://gimp.trafictransfer.com/ (web access); http://mirrors.zerg.biz/gimp/ (web access)
Greece: ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/gimp/; http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/gimp/ (web access)
Ireland: ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/; http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (web access); rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub (rsync access); ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/; http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (web access); rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (rsync access)
Italy: http://www.photo-university.com/download/ (web access)
Japan: ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/; ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/; http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ (web access)
Netherlands: ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/; http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/ (web access); http://mirrors-eu.spyrush.com/gimp/ (web access)
Norway: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/
Poland: ftp://ftp.piotrkosoft.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/; http://piotrkosoft.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (web access); rsync://piotrkosoft.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (rsync access); http://gimp.privatejetscharter.net/ (web access); ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/; ftp://ftp.tpnet.pl/d10/graphics/gimp/; rsync://ftp.tpnet.pl/gimp/ (rsync access); ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
Portugal: ftp://mirrors.dominios.pt/pub/ftp.gimp.org; http://mirrors.dominios.pt/gimp (web access); ftp://mirrors.fe.up.pt/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/; http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (web access); rsync://mirrors.fe.up.pt/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (rsync access)
Romania: ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/; http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (web access)
Russia: ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror/
Slovakia: http://gimp.phphosts.org (web access)
South Africa: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.gimp.org/gimp/
Spain: http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/gimp/ (web access); ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/gimp/
Sweden: ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/; ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/; http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ (web access)
United Kingdom: http://gimp.favoritelinks.net/ (web access); ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/; http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (web access); rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (rsync access)
United States: http://gimp.cp-dev.com/ (web access); http://gimp.goldcoastinformation.com.au/ (web access); http://gimp.mirrors.hoobly.com/gimp/ (web access); http://gimp.promotionalpromos.com/ (web access); http://gimp.sixsigmaonline.org/ (web access); http://mirror.umoss.org/gimp/gimp/ (web access); rsync://mirror.umoss.org/gimp/ (rsync access); http://gimp.zauril.com/ (web access); http://mirrors.zerg.biz/gimp/ (web access)

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