I am trying to upload some new brushes to Gimp and I can't because it is owned by the root. I have had a quick look at how to do it through sudo BUT as I am VERY new to Ubuntu is it possible to just give me the command so I can just copy it across?
user/share/gimp/2.0/brushes3 Answers
Gimp (here on Gimp 2.8) lets you define the location of brushes in the Edit > Preferences menu:
By default it is a (hidden) folder in your HOME directory but you can choose any other location. All files and folders in your HOME are accessible withhout sudo permission.
Hidden directories can be viewed in the file manager by pressing Ctrl+H or by ticking "show hidden files" in preferences.
2Put them in your user's ~/.gimp-2.8/brushes/ folder.
To install for a single user, copy the file to ~/.gimp-2.x/brushes. 2.x is your version of gimp
For all users, copy it to /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes , use sudo
sudo cp your_brush /usr/share/gime/2.0/brushes
