I downloaded GIMPshop from this link and what comes after I unpack the tar.gz is folders and many .bin files

Here is my output of ls

acinclude.m4.bin etc m4macros
aclocal.m4.bin gimpdefs.msc.bin Makefile.am.bin
app gimp.pc.in.bin Makefile.in.bin
AUTHORS.bin gimpthumb.pc.in.bin makefile.msc.bin
authors.dtd.bin gimptool-2.0.in.bin menus
authors.xml.bin gimptool-win32.c.in.bin missing.bin
authors.xsl.bin gimpui.pc.in.bin mkinstalldirs.bin
ChangeLog.bin gimp-zip.in.bin modules
ChangeLog.pre-1-0.bin gtk-doc.make.bin NEWS.bin
ChangeLog.pre-1-2.bin HACKING.bin NEWS.pre-2-0.bin
ChangeLog.pre-2-0.bin INSTALL.bin NEWS.pre-2-2.bin
compile.bin install-sh.bin plug-ins
config.guess.bin intltool-extract.in.bin po
config.h.in.bin intltool-merge.in.bin po-libgimp
config.h.win32.bin intltool-update.in.bin po-plug-ins
config.sub.bin libgimp po-script-fu
configure.bin libgimpbase py-compile.bin
configure.in.bin libgimpcolor README.bin
COPYING.bin libgimpmath README.i18n.bin
cursors libgimpmodule README.win32.bin
data libgimpthumb regexrepl
depcomp.bin libgimpwidgets themes
devel-docs LICENSE.bin tips
docs ltmain.sh.bin tools

From what I understand with these files is that, the generic ./configure, make, and make install is enough to install them, but the problem is the .bin files and I don't know how to open them.

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EDIT: I did some more digging and it seems like the gimpshop.com website is a fake. It looks like someone else bought the domain after it expired and put up the site that's currently there.

This is the real project site, as far as I can tell. Unfortunately, all the links are dead. This file watcher site has a few links, but they're all for FreeBSD. It seems as though the tar.bz2 file isn't necessarily for Mac, but for BSD.

After searching for GIMPshop-source-2.2.4.tbz, nothing much has come up.

There seems to be some good news, however. Softpedia is providing a download for the GIMPShop 2.2.11 DEB!

Download it from there and install it. Then run /usr/local/bin/gimp to run it.

Another Update: Thanks to @Zanna's sacrifice (she killed her GIMP install trying GShop out), I can report that it's probably not worth installing GIMPShop. According to her, the application is very broken: stuff just doesn't work. Since it also kills GIMP if it's installed (easy fix, but annoying), I recommend just getting used to using GIMP instead of trying to resurrect something from 2006.

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I looked at your link. It's instructions for installing and older version of Gimp. It doesn't appear to be instructions for installing on Ubuntu.

You can install a later version of GIMP on Ubuntu from the repository with:

$ sudo apt-get install gimp

You can also look at the various plugins available for gimp as well as installing it from the Software Center by typing Software Center in the Ubuntu Launch button. Then use gimp for the package search.

Others have already described how to run files. You can run a bin file from the commandline with:

$ ./file.bin

Using file.bin as the name of the bin file that you are trying to run. When you download a file it might not have the execution bit set. You can set it with this command:

$ chmod +x file.bin

For your information:

Gimpshop is a modified version of Gimp to make it look similar to Photoshop. It's old and outdated. You would get better millage with Gimp, whereas Gimp has lots of support, and using its interface might make it easier for you to get answers to any questions or problems you have, as well of using the features.

If you succeed in getting the outdated (and broken) Gimpshop installed, the application will most likely be broken. You'd also have a hard time getting support trying to use the broken environment. After extensive research, I couldn't find any official support resource for Gimpshop.

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I suggest running GIMP standard like the others, but update its menus to run as Photoshop like as possible:

The details are in that link, but essentially:

• You can install a small utility to enable a lot of the photoshop shortcuts: ps-menurc

• Mimic the move tool as per photoshop

• Adjust boundary lines like photoshop

• Snap to canvas like photoshop

• You can add a Layer tool to make the layers work more similarly also (Layer copy cut plugin)

Also you can install a theme pack now that makes it more like Photoshop!

The pack includes:

• Photoshop icons for the toolbox
• Photoshop keyboard shortcuts (e.g., ‘p’ for pen, ‘c’ for crop, etc.)
• A dark grey background
• Photoshop layout
• Tool options placed on the right-hand side

For this option I would first backup your config folder /.gimp2.x e.g. :

mv ~/.gimp-2.8 ~/.gimp-2.8-original

Then try the theme.

There are other themes out there too if you are missing certain photoshop things.

You can use the following commands:

sudo chmod +x [filename].bin

./[filename].bin

If the program requires elevated permissions, you can use:

sudo bash -c './[filename].bin

Based on the file structure you posted above, you probably want to use INSTALL.bin, but I don't know that for sure.

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First, open the Terminal, then mark the file as executable with the chmod command.

chmod +x file-name.bin

Now you can execute the file in the terminal.

./file-name.bin

If an error message including a problem such as 'permission denied' appears, use sudo to run it as root (admin). Be careful, sudo allows you to make critical changes to your system. Many software installs will require sudo.

sudo ./file-name.bin

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