G'MIC not installing

Naala · **Joined:** May 14, 2013 **Posts:** 2

Hi

I've been trying to install G'MIC and it's just not working. I've got Windows 64 bit, and I've tried copying extracted files to the plug-ins folder, but when I open Gimp it's just not there. Any ideas? Thanks

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Naala, did you download the correct GMIC for Windows 64bit? There are several to choose from. Your download should have a gmic.exe and another one. I do not use Windows, I use Linux, so mine will be different. Mine just says GMIC with no exe.

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue May 14, 2013 7:24 am **(#3)**

when I install G'MIC (but I am on 32 bits windows) I find an installation exe, which provides to install it; do you have it for your 64 bits version?

Naala · **Joined:** May 14, 2013 **Posts:** 2

I did download the right one, and the .exe file keeps giving me error messages. Thanks for the video, I tried following his directions, but it didn't work. I'm now downloading Gimp 2.8 to see if that helps

EDIT: Updating from Gimp 2.6 to 2.8 seems to have solved the problem

Thanks guys

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

Naala wrote:

I did download the right one, and the .exe file keeps giving me error messages. Thanks for the video, I tried following his directions, but it didn't work. I'm now downloading Gimp 2.8 to see if that helps

EDIT: Updating from Gimp 2.6 to 2.8 seems to have solved the problem

Thanks guys

Welcome to Gimp Chat Naala.
This error has to do with some DLL files updated in Gimp-2.8 i believe.

Glad you got it running though! :bigthup

Maybe this should be brought to Davids (G'MICS creator), attention.Maybe a version for both Gimp-2.6 and Gimp-2.8 is required? Still a lot of folks using Gimp-2.6 versions right now.It is just too stable of a version to give up i guess.