Install G’MIC 1.6.9 (GIMP Plugin) on Ubuntu

G’MIC Plugin for GIMP image editor on Linux Ubuntu. Install G’MIC 1.6.9 (GIMP Plugin) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. G’MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing. It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, thus including 2d color images.

These interfaces are:

A command-line interface gmic, to use the G’MIC features from a shell. In this setting, G’MIC may be seen as a friendly companion to the ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick software suites.
A plug-in gmic_gimp, to bring G’MIC capabilities to the image retouching software GIMP. More than 400 filters are already available, sorted by category (Artistic, Black & white, Colors, Contours, Deformations, Degradations, Details, Film emulation, Frames, Layers, Light & shadows, Patterns, Rendering, Repair, Sequences, etc.).
A web service G’MIC Online, to allow users applying image processing algorithms on their images, directly from a web browser.

New Features:

New command -frame_seamless and associated plug-in filter Arrays & tiles / Make seamless [patch-based]. It inserts an inner or outer frame to an input image/texture so that seams are less visible when the input image is tiled.
New filter Deformations / Continuous droste in the GIMP plug-in. This is a direct conversion of the Droste filter written originally for Mathmap (https://www.flickr.com/groups/88221799@N00/discuss/72157601071820707/). The conversion has been done by Martin (aka Souphead).
Martin also converted another Mathmap script, named the Kitaoka Spin Illusion.
New filters from Andy (GarageCoder) have been moved from Testing/ into the main branch. Lot of cool filters to discover !

Improvements :

Embedded math evaluator has been greatly improved and optimized. It now supports manipulation of vector-valued variables. Lot of new functions have been added to deal with vector/complex-valued arguments : cabs(),carg(),cexp(),clog(),cconj(),operator**,operator//, etc..
Math evaluator also allows the user to define their own custom functions.
String substitution by the evaluation of a math formula can be vector-valued now. For instance expression {[w,h,d]} is equivalent to expression {w},{h},{d}.
Added support for saving bigtiff files (more than 4Gb).
Makefile has been slightly improved (use of the CXX pre-definition).
Better management of some exceptions in the G’MIC source code.
[gimp plug-in] : Added code to check if the dialog window is entirely visible on screen, otherwise try to reduce the preview size as much as possible.
New mascot Gmicky designed by David Revoy8.

Bug fixes :

When overriding variables x,y,z,c in the math parser, keep consider the original running values of x,y,z,c when accessing a pixel value with default arguments.
Update filter command now allow first-level section names to be translated into a specific language (done for Japanese).
Drop support of GIMP 2.6 for the G’MIC plug-in. The plug-in has been not tested on GIMP 2.6 for a while, and I doubt this is still working.
A lot of small bug fixes !

G’MIC 1.6.9 is the latest G’MIC versions and is available to download and install, via PPA. Run the following commands in Terminal to install G’MIC 1.6.9 on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gmic

The G’MIC plug-in should be then available from the Filters/G’MIC.. menu entry.

On Unix, the plug-in directory is usually located at $HOME/.gimp-2.x/plug-ins/.
The plug-in requires these libraries installed on your system: libfftw, libfftw_threads, libpng, zlib. Use your package manager to fit these dependancies.

If you wish to remove and uninstall the G’MIC 1.6.9 plugin from Ubuntu Systems, run the command:

$ sudo apt-get remove gmic