hxxp://xvi.academ.org:5081/gimp-2.8.2-64bit.tar.bz2
hxxp://xvi.academ.org:5081/gimp-2.8.2-32bit.tar.bz2
Download and unpack it to /opt/gimp-2.8, then use the following bash script to launch:
#!/bin/bash export PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin:$PATH; export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/lib/pkgconfig; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8/lib; /opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp-2.8;The icon file, copy to /usr/share/applications/gimp-2.8.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Gimp 2.8.2 GenericName=Image Editor Comment=Create images and edit photographs Exec=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp-2.8 %U TryExec=/opt/gimp-2.8/bin/gimp-2.8 Icon=gimp Terminal=false Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;RasterGraphics;GTK; X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=GIMP X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=General X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.8.2 X-GNOME-Bugzilla-OtherBinaries=gimp-2.8 StartupNotify=true MimeType=application/postscript;application/pdf;image/bmp;image/g3fax;image/gif;image/x-fits;image/pcx;image/x-portable-anymap;image/x-portable-bitmap;image/x-portable-graymap;image/x-portable-pixmap;image/x-psd;image/x-sgi;image/x-tga;image/x-xbitmap;image/x-xwindowdump;image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;image/x-gimp-gbr;image/x-gimp-pat;image/x-gimp-gih;image/tiff;image/jpeg;image/x-psp;image/png;image/x-icon;image/x-xpixmap;application/pdf;image/x-wmf;image/x-xcursor;