GIMP 3.0.0-RC2. No Turboprint plugin

raijar · January 21, 2025, 5:06pm

Turboprint is not visible in the menu. Only Print is visible, i.e. Ctrl+P.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250119
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.9-1-default (64-bit)

hui · January 21, 2025, 5:17pm

Also scan affected…
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1236150

raijar · January 22, 2025, 6:49pm

Thanks for the info!
It could very well be the same bug. I’ll wait for the fix for the bug you mentioned.

johnvv · January 30, 2025, 2:31am

this is why i blacklisted gimp3 rc2 from installing
the NEEDED !!! plugins i use are not YET building for gimp3

raijar · February 2, 2025, 8:09pm

So did I. I don’t really need GIMP for anything other than printing photos. And GIMP RC2 can’t do that anymore.

raijar · February 3, 2025, 2:19pm

And the biggest problem of all is that I can’t install the old 2 version anywhere anymore. And I don’t know how to compile such a version myself. I’ve never encountered such a problem with Linux before. This is not very user-friendly.

malcolmlewis · February 3, 2025, 2:33pm

@raijar That’s a feature of Tumbleweed and how it rolls, expect things to break at times… It’s the development model.

malcolmlewis · February 3, 2025, 2:36pm

@raijar This is a commercial product plugin, perhaps you need to follow up with them… oh they don’t plan on supporting 3.0…
https://www.turboprint.info/support/viewtopic.php?t=8164
They want you to purchase a new standalone product.

This is not an openSUSE Tumbleweed issue it would seem…

malcolmlewis · February 3, 2025, 2:41pm

It’s still in the history repo…

raijar · February 3, 2025, 8:23pm

Aha. The Turprint plugin will no longer work with GIMP.
Is there any way to install Tumbleweed’s GIMP 2 version with libraries? I don’t need GIMP 3 for anything, not yet. If I can somehow install GIMP 2, that’s enough for me and I’ll then set addlock to gimp 2 with zypper.

gimp-gap-2.6.0-31.2.x86_64.rpm worth a try?

malcolmlewis · February 3, 2025, 8:41pm

@raijar Collect the rpms from the history repo would be my suggestion and install locally so you have them. Add a directory as a plain rpm repo.

raijar · February 4, 2025, 8:44am

Thanks a lot for the tip! I don’t have much to lose if I try installing GIMP manually.

raijar · February 4, 2025, 9:44am

gimp-print

I got that old version of gimp working! YES!!
What did I do?

I uninstalled and reinstalled gimp 3 to see what programs gimp needs
I downloaded the old versions of the programs gimp needed and installed them with zypper, even though there were warnings during the installation.
gimp-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm
gimp-plugin-aa-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm
gimp-plugins-python-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm
inkscape-extensions-gimp-1.4+39-1.1.x86_64.rpm
libgimp-2_0-0-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm
libgimpui-2_0-0-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm

3.I set the lock for the above mentioned programs
zypper al gimp
zypper ll

| Name | Type | Repository | Comment

–±-----------------------------------------------±-------±-----------±-------
1 | gimp-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
2 | gimp-plugin-aa-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
3 | gimp-plugins-python-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
4 | inkscape-extensions-gimp-1.4+39-1.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
5 | inkscape-extensions-gimp-1.4-3.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
6 | libgimp-2_0-0-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |
7 | libgimpui-2_0-0-2.10.38-4.1.x86_64.rpm | package | (any) |