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how to install gimp webp plugin? I found out that we can do it using with gimp-plugin-registry, but donno how. I have install gimp-plugin-registry extension for gimp from ubuntu software center, now what should i do?

I also found out that we can put plugins in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/, so i tried to compile the gimp webp plugin src. I installed libwebp-dev and ran make in plugin source folder. It says 

Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

so i decided to install libgtk package but i found both libgtk2.0-dev and libgtk-3-dev. Is libgtk-3-dev is latest release of the libgtk2.0-dev? If so is it ok if I installed the later one?

I want to know at least how to install the plugin with gimp-plugin-registry and i will be more happy if i can do it by compiling src.

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I've installed libgtk-3-dev and ran make and it threw same error, I carried on with libgtk2.0-dev, Now it throws Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. There is no gimp-dev in repositories! I got stuck!

Nathan Osman
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Note: the WebP plugin is going to be included in the next version of the Gimp (version 2.8+) as a built-in plugin (later, this plugin was shipped in GIMP 2.9 branch, and received multiple improvements). The PPA can still be used to enable WebP support in the meantime.

I have updated the packages available in the WebP PPA to the latest Ubuntu releases. After adding the PPA, you can use the plugin simply by installing the gimp-webp package.

I also migrated the plugin over to CMake, so building the plugin is a lot easier now:

  1. Install the following packages:

     sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake libgimp2.0-dev libwebp-dev

  2. Checkout the source code:

     git clone https://github.com/nathan-osman/gimp-webp

  3. cd to the new directory and create a build/ directory:

     cd gimp-webp
 mkdir build
 cd build

  4. Build the plugin:

     cmake ..
 make

  5. Install the plugin:

     sudo make install

That's it!

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