There are two methods for installing the plugins in Linux:

• Install the plugins from the Snap Store
• Build and install GIMP and the plugins manually

Snap Installation

For Linux distributions supporting snaps (e.g. Ubuntu), the plugins can be installed and connected to the GIMP snap with these commands:

sudo snap install gimp
sudo snap install intel-npu-driver # (optional) for NPU support
sudo snap install openvino-ai-plugins-gimp
sudo snap connect gimp:gimp-plugins openvino-ai-plugins-gimp:gimp-plugins

More details can be found here.

Building and installing the plugins manually

Build GIMP

1. Create a directory where you will download and build all of the sources for GIMP

   cd $HOME
   mkdir ./GIMP
   cd ./GIMP
   

2. Install Dependencies

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install -y cmake libgflags-dev patchelf python3-pip gettext git git-lfs build-essential meson ninja-build autoconf libcairo2-dev libxt-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev libgexiv2-dev libgtk-3-dev libmypaint-dev mypaint-brushes libbz2-dev libatk1.0-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libwmf-dev libxcb-glx0-dev  libxcb-dri2-0-dev   libxxf86vm-dev   valgrind  libappstream-glib-dev  libpugixml-dev libxmu-dev   libpoppler-glib-dev   xsltproc librsvg2-dev libopencv-dev libgirepository-2.0-dev python3-venv libappstream-dev
   

3. Clone, build, and install babl

   git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/babl
   cd babl
   git checkout tags/BABL_0_1_118
   meson _build
   ninja -C _build
   sudo ninja -C _build install
   cd ..
   

4. Clone, build, and install gegl

   git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl
   cd gegl
   git checkout tags/GEGL_0_4_66
   meson _build
   ninja -C _build
   sudo ninja -C _build install
   cd ..
   

5. Clone, build, and install Gimp

   git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp  
   cd gimp
   git checkout tags/GIMP_3_0_6
   git submodule update --init 
   export GI_TYPELIB_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0:/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0
   sudo ldconfig
   meson _build
   ninja -C _build
   sudo ninja -C _build install
   cd ..
   

Install Plugins

1. Clone this repo

   cd $HOME/GIMP
   git clone https://github.com/intel/openvino-ai-plugins-gimp.git
   

2. Run install script, and download models. The following steps will create the virtual environment "gimpenv3" and install all required packages.

   chmod +x openvino-ai-plugins-gimp/install.sh
   ./openvino-ai-plugins-gimp/install.sh
   

Verify Installation

Start GIMP, ensuring to setup the environment variables correctly, and you should see 'OpenVINO-AI-Plugins' show up in 'Layer' menu.

export GI_TYPELIB_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0:/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
gimp-3