This page documents the installation procedure for the latest plugin version (0.4.0 currently).
You can find instructions about the older 0.3.0 version here.
Linux
Installing from sources
If you are upgrading from version 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 it is advisable to uninstall the previous version before proceding.
First of all, you have to make sure to satisfy all the dependencies. The most important ones are the GIMP headers (version 2.4 or later)
and the Liquid Rescale Library (liblqr1), version 0.1.0 or later.
You can find the liblqr1 Library here, along with precompiled packages and instructions, while all other required packages should be available through
your own distribution.
When you have the headers, extract the downloaded file
tar -vxzf gimp-lqr-plugin_X.Y.Z-T.tar.gz
where you will substitute what's appropriate for X.Y.Z-T.
This will create a directory called gimp-lqr-plugin_X.Y.Z, ener into it and issue
./configure && make && sudo make install
The last step requires that you have administrative privileges on your computer.
That's all. You will find the plugin under the Layer menu the next time you restart GIMP.
Uninstalling
Just go back to the plugin directory and issue
sudo make uninstall
Mac OS X
Installing GIMP and required dependencies
To install the liquid rescale plugin, you will have to install Gimp.app from the macports package distribution system as well as the X11.app provided on OS X installation CDs (or XDarwin).
There are two reasons for that:
- the gimp.app project DMG distribution doesn't provide all the required headers etc… to compile the plugin,
- Fink gimp version is outdated and only macports provides a Gimp version that is compatible with this plugin.
Once you have installed macports, install the gimp and gimp-app port:
sudo port install gimp gimp-app
You might have errors during this process, and will have to force the activation of perl related ports:
sudo port activate -f p5-pathtools
sudo port activate -f p5-getopt-long
and then relaunch the gimp port installation.
You will also need the Liquid Rescale Library installed (download and instructions here).
Compile and Install the plugin
You can now compile the plugin from source:
- extract the source archive
tar -vxzf gimp-lqr-plugin_X.Y.Z.tar.gz
- go into the decompressed directory
- on the command line, configure the compilation with:
./configure --prefix=/opt/local PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/liblqr-1-X.Y.Z
where PKG_CONFIG_PATH points to the directory that liblqr was downloaded to (the directory that contains the file "lqr-1.pc").
To install version 0.4.0, you have to edit manually a file before compiling. Edit the po/Makefile with a text editor and find the lines 47 to 49 that should be:
GMSGFMT=
MSGFMT=
XGETTEXT=
and replace them with:
GMSGFMT=/opt/local/bin/msgfmt
MSGFMT=/opt/local/bin/msgfmt
XGETTEXT=/opt/local/bin/xgettext
You can now compile with:
make
sudo make install
The plugin will be installed and you can use it from /Applications/MacPorts/Gimp.app, under the Layer menu.
Windows
Installing from the compressed archive
Extract the files, with their full directory structure, into the main GIMP directory, usually it is under C:\Programs\GIMP-2.0, and you will see the plugin under the Layer menu next time you restart GIMP
Users of PortableApps
Disclaimer: the following instructions were written for version 0.3.0 and have not been tested with version 0.4.0. They should work however. If anyone tries this, please update this section or report (either in the forum or via private message, both in case of failure or success).
If you have the older 2.6.6.0 version, just copy the following new libraries into the portable gtk:
- libgimp-2.0.0.dll
- libgmodule-2.0.0.dll
- libgobject-2.0.0.dll
- libgthread-2.0.0.dll
The plugin installation procedure should then work.