Install Krita, Professional Digital Painting and Drawing Application
Krita is an application and drawing that is part of the Calligra Suite, created and developed by KDE developers.
Krita is used by professional drawing artists or illustrators in producing works such as illustrations, comics, storyboards, paintings and other creative painting works.
With Krita, users can perform various tasks such as sketching, drawing, coloring, painting, processing images and more.
Because it has many features that are very complete for such purposes. Krita makes users who work in this field more creative in producing works. Krita has the ability to be very reliable, fast and flexible.
Krita is a free and open source application which is licensed under the GNU Public License. Krita is a multi-platform application, not only available for the GNU/Linux operating system, Krita is also available for use on Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems.
How to Install Krita on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary and Others.
On some distributions, Krita is available by default. Or users can install it through the Software Center or Software Manager.
However, the available Krita is an outdated or not up-to-date version. Users certainly want the latest or latest version, with various performance improvements and features that are certainly owned by the latest application.
There are several ways to install Krita on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and others. You can use AppImage and PPA repository.
How to Install Krita on Ubuntu Using AppImage
After a year of development since version 2.9 was released in 2022, in mid-2022, Krita developers officially released the latest version of Krita, namely version 3.0. By having fixes, improvements and the addition of many features in this latest version, making Krita more reliable.
Krita 3.0 was released with AppImage available for all distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system. However, this version of AppImage is only available for Linux operating systems with 64 bit versions.
Download the Krita version with AppImage on the Krita official website. Download the AppImage on the GNU/Linux tab as shown below.
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| Download AppImage Krita |
Wait until the download process is complete.
After the download is complete, change the permissions so that the file can be executed or executable by typing the following command in Terminal.
chmod a+x krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage
When finished, open it by double-clicking on the file to install it. Or by typing the following command.
./krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage
How to Install Krita on Ubuntu Using the Repository
Apart from using AppImage. For Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementatary and other Ubuntu-derived distros can also carry out the installation process through the PPA repository. However, for the latest version of Krita, it is more and more highly recommended to install Krita using AppImage.
To install Krita using the PPA repository. Before that make sure you are connected to the internet. Then open Terminal by pressing the combination CTRL + ALT + T on the keyboard to open Terminal.
Enter the following command in Terminal to add the repository and install Krita.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install krita3-testing
Wait for the update and installation process to complete. Then open Krita via Launcher, Dash or Application Menu on your desktop. Good Luck.
