HOW TO INSTALL LINUX PINTA IMAGE EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Linux Pinta image editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Pinta is a free and open source GNOME based painting application can be used to edit images and for painting purpose. Pinta was developed by Jonathan Pobst on year 2010 using C# (C Sharp) programming language and released under MIT X11 License. It’s an similar application like MS Paint in windows but Linux Pinta image editor is more advance application then Microsoft Paint with nice features. It’s an cross platform application available for all major Operating Systems like Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.

Pinta image editor is very easy to use and user friendly application and easily understandable features. This application is available in almost all languages. Developers are still working on this to make the application more better and usable. It cannot be useful for advance paint or image editing tasks but for normal or basic image editing purpose it’s an nice application and an nice alternative to Microsoft Paint. The installation steps of Linux Pinta image editor is quiet simple. Here we are going to install latest pinta version 1.6-2 which was released on 1st March 2015 in Ubuntu 16.04. For more information on Linux Pinta image editor you can visit the official website Here!

Follow the below steps to install Linux Pinta Image Editor in Ubuntu 16.04

Before we start the installation of Linux Pinta image editor we have to install it’s official version of PPA repository. We can do so using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable   # Install PPA Repository
 
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pinta-stable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpstllw8lr/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpstllw8lr/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key A5A1D6B2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpstllw8lr/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key A5A1D6B2: public key "Launchpad PPA for Pinta Maintainers" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

After installing the PPA repository just update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories

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Now we are ready to install Linux Pinta image editor package. You can use the below command to install the same.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install pinta   # Install Pinta Image editor Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  binfmt-support ca-certificates-mono cli-common gnome-icon-theme libgdiplus libgif7 libglib2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil
  libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil
  libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
  libmono-system4.0-cil mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen
Suggested packages:
  monodoc-gtk2.0-manual libmono-i18n4.0-all libgamin0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binfmt-support ca-certificates-mono cli-common gnome-icon-theme libgdiplus libgif7 libglib2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil
  libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil
  libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
  libmono-system4.0-cil mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen pinta
0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 345 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 40.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation

So we have successfully installed the Pinta Image editor. To confirm the same you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l pinta   # 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  pinta                                1.6-2                   all                     Simple drawing/painting program

To open the application just type the command pinta on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ pinta   # Open the Linux Pinta Application

Pinta Application Version :

You can also open the Linux Pinta image editor package graphically using Search your computer Box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the package you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r pinta   # Uninstall the Package
(Reading database ... 180837 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pinta (1.6-2) ...
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) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

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