If you want to edit a RAW file in GIMP you need to convert it first into format that is recognized by GIMP. Search engine for official PPA's general information on PPA - Personal Package Archives at the ItsFOSS website and Launchpad introduction to packaging and PPA's could be useful resources.Same as Photoshop, GIMP has never intended to handle RAW files. You may have to add a PPA from a software maintainer if you want the more recent version. the website's (Gimp or Darktable's) latest documentation. If things are not working properly it can be worth checking if there is a significant difference between your installed version vs. This is sort of off-topic: the standard distribution repositories do not guarantee the latest versions of software (such as you would possibly find with a snap image downloaded from the software's official website). ARW) in Gimp it opens Darktable automatically, the image will be opened in Gimp as soon as you close the Darktable application. However only Darktable 3.0.1-0ubuntu1 (latest version was v3.2.1 at the time). This gave my system Gimp v2.10.18 (close to latest v2.10.20 as of Sep. This is the fact.Īs has been suggested: install Gimp and Darktable from standard distribution repositories like on Ubuntu 20.04 'focal'. We as users are about to expect unhappy years of struggling to complete simple tasks with Ubuntu because of this attitude. P.S I thought that during the years the standards have become higher in open-source development but they might have actually got lower. No users should have the study the internals of an application, so they can configure it properly. These were probably some internal configuration problems of Gimp but the thing is most open-source contributors are happy with 'works on my machine' which is the case with Gimp sadly. I can confirm that Darktable from ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release and Gimp from ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp work correctly together. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp Once I installed Gimp from this ppa everything happened flawlessly: (Gimp's contributors probably need to update Gimp's homepage because they are currently providing incorrect info.) It seems that the gimp packages coming from snap and flatpak are completely broken but the reason is probably nobody uses them at all.Įven though flatpak is the 'recommended way' of installing Gimp I would strongly advise against using it at all, simply because the packages coming from there are completely unusable out of the box. I've tried installing Gimp with flatpak, removed Darktable from snap and installed the latest one from a ppa (personal archive). After long 40 minutes of struggling, I managed to make Darktable work with Gimp.

Raw file loader for gimp