PhotoGimp/How to Install.md

How to install PhotoGIMP

On Linux with flatpak version of GIMP

Extract all hidden folders

• .icons
• .var
• .local

to your Home directory. Make sure there is no ~/.config/gimp folder!

On Linux with GIMP installed through package manager —or— On *BSD

Extract all hidden folders

• .icons
• .var
• .local

to your Home directory and then move the subfolder

• .var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10

to ~/.config/gimp/2.10.

Afterwards you can delete .var/app/org.gimp.GIMP respectively .var (if not used otherwise!).

On macOS

Unpack the whole archive and copy/move only the subfolder —or— Extract only the subfolder

• .var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10 (inside the hidden folder .var)

into the folder ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP.

Afterwards you can delete .var.