HOW TO INSTALL KRITA PAINTING (KRITA DIGITAL PAINTING) FREE ART SOFTWARE IN UBUNTU 16.04
HOW TO INSTALL KRITA PAINTING (KRITA DIGITAL PAINTING) FREE ART SOFTWARE IN UBUNTU 16.04
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Krita Painting (Krita Digital Painting) free art software in Ubuntu 16.04. Krita painting is a open source application can be used for so many purposes like digital painting, Image editing, animation and so on. It’s an cross platform application available for all major operating systems i.e. Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, MacOS. This application is mainly useful for Painters, VFX designers, texture artists, illustrators..etc..Krita Painting tool was developed by KDE community using C++ & QT programming language and released first time on year 2005 under GPLv2 + license.
For more information on Krita Painting (Krita Digital Painting) free art software you can visit the official website Here!
Follow the below steps to install Krita Painting (Krita Digital Painting) free art software in Ubuntu 16.04
Before start the installation we have to install official PPA repository for Krita Painting tool as Krita application is not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the PPA repository refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa # Install PPA Repository
[sudo] password for elinuxbook:
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Krita Lime PPA http://krita.org
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Welcome to Krita Lime PPA!
This PPA delivers the freshest Krita packages for Ubuntu, directly picked
by the developers from the source tree.
If you have Ubuntu 16.10 or newer, please use Krita from this repository, this is an officially recommended way alongside AppImage builds.
To install Krita just type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita
If you also want to install translations:
sudo apt-get install krita-l10n
Note: older versions of Ubuntu (including 16.04) are not supported by this repository due to outdated version of Qt library provided. Please use AppImage builds instead [0]
[0] - https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/
More info: https://launchpad.net/~kritalime/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpxk0p9jn7/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpxk0p9jn7/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 01CEE17F from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpxk0p9jn7/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 01CEE17F: public key "Launchpad PPA for Krita Lime (*experimental*)" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
After installing the PPA repository just update the Packages & Repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dawidd0811/neofetch/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:2 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
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Now let’s go ahead and install Krita Painting (Krita Digital Painting) free art software package using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install krita # Install Krita Digital Painting Package
We have successfully installed the Krita Painting application. To confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l krita # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii krita 1:2.9.7-0ubuntu12 amd64 pixel-based image manipulation program for the Calligra Suite
To open the krita digital painting application just type the command krita on shell prompt. Refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ krita # Open the Krita Application
Snap : 1
KRITA DIGITAL PAINTING FREE ART SOFTWARE LOADING
Snap : 2
KRITA DIGITAL PAINTING FREE ART SOFTWARE
You can also open the application using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN KRITA PAINTING FREE ART SOFTWARE GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the Krita Painting (Krita Digital Painting) free art software use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r krita # Uninstall the Krita Free art Software
(Reading database ... 276507 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing krita (1:2.9.7-0ubuntu12) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
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