Install GIMP 2.5 on Ubuntu Hardy

GIMP 2.5 came out and it has some interesting features. Since it is not available in Ubuntu's repos i thought it would be nice to make a detailed tutorial on how to install GIMP 2.5 on Ubuntu Hardy for evaluation purpose.

1. Install the packages needed to compile programs:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

2. Install gimp dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep gimp

3. Make binaries, includes, libraries in /opt/gimp-2.5 available for use:

$ export PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/bin:$PATH
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/lib
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.5/lib/pkgconfig


4. Install latest BABL and GEGL libs from source (these libs were not installed in step 2 as the gimp package in the repo is not depending on them)
4.1 Grab latest versions from SVN:

$ svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/babl/trunk/ babl
$ svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gegl/trunk/ gegl

4.2 Install BABL:
$ cd babl
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..

4.3 Install GEGL:

$ cd gegl
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..

5. Grab GIMP 2.5 tarbal here: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.5/gimp-2.5.0.tar.bz2
$ wget ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.5/gimp-2.5.0.tar.bz2

6. Extract and intall latest GIMP:
$ tar jxvf gimp-2.5.0.tar.bz2
$ cd gimp-2.5.0
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.5
$ make
$ sudo make install

7. Enjoy your GIMP by running:
$ /opt/gimp-2.5/bin/gimp-2.5