[SOLVED YES IN MAG9] Can Gimp2 and GIMP3 be both installed?

[canadaist]

As bugs in GIMP 2.10 are still annoying ( changing text colour crashes gimp, known upstream bug. ) is it possible to have both gimp 2.10 and gimp3 installed at the same time? Is GIMP3 stable enough to use?

[morgano]

At least you should be able to by having one version as Flatpak
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flatpak

[sturmvogel]

At least you should be able to by having one version as Flatpak
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flatpak

There is absolutely no need to use flatpak.
In Mageia 9 two different packages "gimp" and "gimp3" are available and installable in parallel as they use two different installation paths. You have both applications in the application starter.

So to answer the original question: Yes, both versions can be installed and used at the same time from the official MGA 9 repositories. As "gimp3" is in reality Gimp 2.99.14 (a developement version on the way to real the Gimp 3.0) it is possible that there are also some small bugs. But in general it is stable to use. See https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/18/gi ... -released/

[morgano]

Good to know for upcoming Mageia 9
But gimp3 is not available in Mageia 8

[canadaist]

Thank you very much sturmvogel.

[Germ]

Are you running MGA8 or MGA9?

[canadaist]

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