I am using Linux Mint 22.2 and have installed GIMP (3.06) as it looks a useful tool for my photograhpy, but to be really useful i need a batch processing capability. Thus i am trying to install the Batcher plug-in which seems to fir my needs. However i cannot install the plug-in and seeking some guidance on possible solutions:

I have downloaded and uzipped Batcher 1.1.1.
I open GIMP 'Preferences - Folders - Plugins and see the following:
/home/paul/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins
/app/lib/gimp/3.0/plug-ins
/app/extensions/plug-ins

I open these locations within GIMP and i see list of default plug-ins, and assuming i have understood the instructions correctly, i need to move the unzipped Batcher folder/files into one of these directories.

However, using Linux file manager or Terminal, it shows ....config/GIMP/3.0 folder as empty and i cannot see /app folder at all, even when accessing as 'root' and 'show hidden files' selected. Thus i cannot copy Batcher into the required plug-in folders as i simply cannot see the folders. Thoroughly puzzled!

All thoughts appreciated.

Hello
I also use GIMP and I'm new to it, and I'm also on version 3.0.6. The system I use is Linux Zorin OS 18. I followed a procedure.
1. In Edit => Preferences => Plugins, I created the following address:
/home/dunham-zorin/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/batcher-1.1.1
2. I placed the uncompressed batcher folder inside the batcher-1-1-1 folder above.
3. I made the batcher.py and _ini_.py files executable. I don't know if this step is necessary because I didn't test it before and after, but the plugin is working here. It appears in the file menu as "batch convert".

In theory Batcher goes in ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins The plug-ins folder for the flatpak Gimp user profile. However the flatpak installation does not always make a correct user profile. (Also a long-winded pita of a location)

The best course of action is to create your own plugins folder and then in Edit -> Preferences -> folders -> plug-ins add your folder to the path.

Unzip Batcher and put it in your new plugins.

This a one-and-a-half minute demo of that. https://filedn.com/lkb9dw6mEfXSsOu9uKLa ... gin-01.mp4

Any other resources - scripts - brushes - patterns etc - do the equivalent as new folders.

Thanks for the tips, and i have followed the short video clip, but GIMP is still not picking up Batcher. For some reason GIMP is not recognising the Batcher .py file. I attached a screen shot of the newly created plug-in directory and what i see when i open the same folder within GIMP Plug-in Preferences. Within GIMP, the .py file is 'greyed' out as you can see and i cannot even select it.
Within file manager i have checked file permissions to ensure there is full access to the folder and files and that the 'py file is configured to 'run as executable'.

I have successfully installed other apps on my laptop since moving from Windows to Linux (which i am now fully hooked on) and never encountered anything like this. Any other ideas anyone?

You seem to have a mixture of the two suggestions.
However:
For Gimp 3, plugins are in their own folder with a name the same as the plugin executable ie. batcher and batcher.py You have a folder GIMP-Batcher which contains batcher.py That is never going to work. Remember linux unlike Windoze is case dependant Batcher or even batCher is not the same as batcher.



then:
The path to the plug-ins folder. A plugins folder can be anywhere providing you add the path in Edit -> Preferences -> Folders -> Plug-ins
I suggested keeping it simple with a plugins folder, any name you like, in your home partition, containing the batcher folder.
Dunham suggested the regular (non-flatpak) location ~/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/
Anywhere you like but lets have a screenshot of your setup. Something like this:

I followed your guidance and batcher is now loading.

Many thanks for your help, its much appreciated.