How to Install and uninstall GIMP on Ubuntu

Hello,

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), or The GIMP, is a tool used to edit and also add effects to images, GIMP is free and open source software. There are versions for most operating systems including GNU / Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows.

In GIMP there are many tools used for image editing, manipulation and editing, freehand drawing, readjusting, cropping, photomontages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks for image processing. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation and manipulation plugin. Using layers and transparency, the software can be used to plot rotoscopy. GIMP is the cross platforms application and available for Linux, Windows, MAC OS, and FreeBSD etc. This article will help you to install the latest GIMP on Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04 LTS Linux systems.

To install GIMP you need only to execute the next commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gimp

if you want to uninstall GIMP from your system, yo will need only to run the next command :

sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry