Installation of Gimp 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Hi guys,
Gimp 2.8 stable was officially released. To install it on a Ubuntu 12.04 you will need to install the same packages as for the RC.
If you already used the release canidate of 2.8 installing will be as easy as downloading the source from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/ and running:

./configure
make
sudo make install

If you did not install the release canidate before you will need to install some additional packages.
The following will be mostly copied from my guideline to install Gimp 2.7.5. I just corrected some things and added additional information.

When i write “configure, make and install ” i mean to navigate to the source location and run the following commands:

./autogen.sh /*if existing*/
./configure
make
sudo make install

If you got a multi-core-processor you can use multiple core when making:

make -j3 /*if you got a dual-core*/
make -j5 /*if you got a quad-core*

You can download the archives by using:

wget <archive><
To extract the archives using commands use these ones:
For .tar.bz2:
 tar -jxvf .tar.bz2

For .tar.gz:

tar -zxvf .tar.gz

For .tar.xz:

unxz .tar.xz 
tar xfv .tar

– Download Gimp 2.8 Source from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/ and extract to directory
– open terminal and navigate to your temporary folder
– update intltool by running:

sudo apt-get install intltool

update gtk+ by running:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

install gtk-doc by runnning:

sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools
install zlib by running:
sudo apt-get install libghc-zlib-dev
install vapigen by running:
sudo apt-get install valac
install python headers by running:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

install pygobject by running:

sudo apt-get install python-gobject-dev

install python-gtk2-dev by running:

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2-dev

download an extract babl from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/babl/0.1/babl-0.1.10.tar.bz2

sudo ldconfig

download and extract pygtk from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.24/pygtk-2.24.0.tar.gz

You are ready!