Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Krita is an open-source image manipulation software, allowing the user to either create pictures from scratch or edit existing images. It is good because it supports most graphics tablets very well.
The latest version available is Krita 2.9.2, which has been recently released, coming with the below features:
- Make the eraser end of the stylus erase by default
- Make krita remember the presets chosen for each stylus and stylus end
- Don’t show the zoom level on-canvas message while loading
- Fix initialization of the multi-brush axis
- Add some more kickstarter backers to the about box
- Fix memory leak when loading presets (and a bunch more memory leaks)
- Fix crashes related to progress reporting when running a g’mic action
- Add a toggle button to hide/show the filter selection tree in the filter dialog
- Fix a focus bug that made it hard to edit e.g. layer names when activating the editor in the docker with a tablet stylus
- Fix geometry of the toolbox on startup in some cases
- Fix lock proportions in the free transform tool when locking aspect ratio
- Add an option to hide the docker titlebars
- Update the resource manager lists after loading a resource bundle
- Make the resource manager look for bundles by default
- Make Krita start faster by only loading images for the references docker when the references docker is visible
- Fix a crash in the g’mic docker when there’s no preview widget selected
- On switching images, show the selected layer in the layer box, not the bottom one
- Show the selected monitor profile in the color management settings page instead of the default one
- Make the Image Split dialog select the right export file type.
- Fix saving and loading masks for file layers
- Make the default MDI background darker
- Fix loading some older .kra files that contained an image name with a number after a /
- Don’t crash if the linux colord colormanager cannot find a color-managed output device
- Clean the code following a number of PVS studio code analyzer warnings
- Add tooltips to the presets in the popup palette
- Fix a problem where brush presets in the popup palette were sometimes misaligned
In this article I will show you how to install Krita 2.9.2 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Krita 2.9.2 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the krita-2.9 and krita-2.9-dbg package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install krita-2.9 krita-2.9-dbg
Next, create the icons:
$ cd /opt/project-neon/share/ && sudo cp -r applications/ /usr/share/
$ cd /opt/project-neon/share/ && sudo cp -r icons/ /usr/share/
$ sudo ln -s /opt/project-neon/bin/krita /usr/bin/krita
Optional, to remove krita, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove krita-2.9 krita-2.9-dbg