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GIMP for Mac OS X

The GIMP team doesn't provide official Mac binaries. You can, however, install GIMP 2.6 easily on the Mac using the packages provided by GIMP on OS X.

Download GIMP 2.6 – Choose a package from the Downloads page Running GIMP on Mac OS X requires Apple's X11 environment. It is included on the "Optional Installs" package on the OS X install disk.

Macports

An easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. To install gimp using Macports, you simply do sudo port install gimp once you have Macports installed.

Download Macports. Fink

Fink is a package repository that offer mostly precompiled binaries. It provides the apt-get command known to e.g. Debian and Ubuntu users, and installing GIMP is as easy as sudo apt-get install gimp once you have installed the Fink installer. If there's no binary package, then fink install gimp will compile GIMP from source.

Download Fink. Show other downloads Source for version 2.6 (Stable)

GIMP releases available from gimp.org and its mirrors contain the source code and have to be compiled in order to be installed on your system.

For instructions, how to build GIMP from source code, please refer to the INSTALL file located in the root directory of each archive.

GIMP 2.6.12 is now available at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/. You may want to read the Release Notes for GIMP 2.6.

To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the MD5 sums of the latest releases: