The digital painting program Krita 2.9 was released today. This is the biggest Krita release that brings dozens of new features, improved functions, fixed bugs, spit and polish all over the place.
According to the official release note, eleven of the twelve Kickstarter-funded features are in the 2.9 release, and the last one will be included in the Krita 2.9.1.
Krita 2.9 comes with support for viewing images with multiple documents, ilustration transformation improvements, HDR painting support, painting and workflow improvements, filter and layer improvements, 3D texturing and image support, and many other changes. See the official release note for details.
Install Krita 2.9 in Ubuntu:
For Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 12.04, the latest Krita is available in the Krita Lime PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
To add the ppa, open terminal from the Dash or application menu. When it opens, run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita
Then update system package cache:
sudo apt-get update
Finally install the latest Krita packages:
sudo apt-get install krita-2.9 krita-2.9-dbg
NOTE: Krita 2.9 will be installed in /opt/ directory, you have to manually install the icons and launchers:
In terminal run below command to copy the launcher (.desktop) files from /opt/ to system directory:
cd /opt/project-neon/share/ && sudo cp -r applications/ /usr/share/
Then copy Krita icons to system icons directory:
cd /opt/project-neon/share/ && sudo cp -r icons/ /usr/share/
Finally create soft link to the Krita executable:
sudo ln -s /opt/project-neon/bin/krita /usr/bin/krita
Restart computer and you should be able to start Krita 2.9 from menu.
Krita is the best open source paint tool to draw artistic images hands down.. and sometimes, to make some simple photo modificactions, it’s good enough. Bye gimp!
you should test GIMP 2.9 (a transitional dev version) I think with this version GIMP has really improved and made me hesitate going entirely to Krita,
Thanks, specially for the launcher and icons part. I note the files copied to /usr/share/ distributed themselves to other places and I can’t see them there with a ‘ls’ command, do you now if there is some background OS process that arranges that? For me it work ok but the question is just for curiosity.
I am running ubuntu 14.10. I tried your commands for installing Krita 2.9 but met with unmet dependencies as stated below.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
krita-2.9 : Depends: kde-runtime but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Great post. It really helped me.Thanks.