[ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

[J Fernyhough]

On 7 October 2012 12:45, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me
>> that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>
> First , if you're not confident, leave it alone. :)
>
> However, you can install ppa-purge which will allow you to roll back
> to official packages if the PPA packages don't work as expected, or
> messes up dependencies:
>
> $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
>
> This way you can try it without much risk. I'm running with that PPA
> in Quantal and it works fine for me. :)
>
> J

Apologies, I didn't read the question. :(

J