GnuTux's 2012 method of compiling gimp-gap for Ubuntu no longer works. There has been some development of the gimp-gap plugin and the ffmpeg video encoder bugs have been fixed.
Thanks to telperion for his encouragement.
Built with the github master @June 30 2017. Tested on Gimp 2.8.22.
UPDATE - There are 2 versions available.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByhCySqrqAmqQjZTblM3ZGMwU0E/viewThis pack is for 64bit Ubuntu 16.04-based distros and has one dependency, libfaac0.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByhCySqrqAmqdUNpbjRmYTlHZWs/viewThis pack is for 64bit Ubuntu 14.04-based distros and has one dependency, libfaac0.
Gimp-gap has become quite hard to compile with a large number of dependencies.
I called this gimp-gap 2.8-1 which is a bit mischievous because the github branch is still on 2.7 although they have included the 2.8 branch. I'm trying to encourage them to finish 2.8 and accept more communication with the user base.
For example I can't find any google group or technical forum to discuss gap patches.
https://github.com/GNOME/gimp-gaphttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gimp-gap