Install GIMP on Centos 6

Centos 6.6 provides the popular graphic editing software GIMP at version 2.6.9. The current stable release is GIMP 2.8 for those who seek the additional editing features (link). Existing Centos 6.6 does not have the required newer libraries to support GIMP 2.8.

The details of GIMP is described as below.

Name        : gimp                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.6.9                             Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 8.el6_6                       Build Date: Thu 20 Nov 2014 02:06:25 PM EST
Install Date: Tue 08 Mar 2016 03:09:46 PM EST      Build Host: c6b9.bsys.dev.centos.org
Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM: gimp-2.6.9-8.el6_6.src.rpm
Size        : 48118103                         License: GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Thu 20 Nov 2014 04:10:42 PM EST, Key ID 0946fca2c105b9de
Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem
URL         : http://www.gimp.org/
Summary     : GNU Image Manipulation Program
Description :
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and
editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other
graphics for webpages. GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect
to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.
GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations
and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all
with multi-level undo.

Flexibility on editing include availability of many brushes and patterns.

 Here are steps to install the standard GIMP version 2.6.9
 

Step 1: Install GIMP

# yum install gimp

Step 2: Install additional brushes and patterns

Install additional brushes and patterns. Brushes include swirls and text to enhance strokes. Patterns such as clouds and funnymess.

yum install gimp-data-extras

Start GIMP from the desktop menu. Click Applications ->Graphics ->GNU Image Manipulation Program




Done