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For users of Krita digital painting software, there’s a bad news that the Krita Lime PPA is abandoned. The repository page is even removed!

Krita Lime PPA was the ‘official’ (definitely not, but maintained by volunteer) package source in Krita’s website until the app switching to AppImage. It maintained the most recent packages for Ubuntu users who are sticking to the native .deb package.

The PPA recently announced the deprecation note: “The Krita Lime PPA has been deprecated. Please use official AppImage packages from the official Krita site instead“, and completely removed the PPA page.

How to Remove Krita Lime PPA:

If you still have the PPA in your system, you may remove it either by using “Software & Updates” utility under “Other Software” tab.

Remove PPAs via Software & Updates tool

Or, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, and run command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:kritalime/ppa

In case the previous methods do not work, you can manually remove the source and key files by running command in terminal:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*kritalime* /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*kritalime*

And finally update package cache via sudo apt update command.

Get most recent Krita package via other methods:

There are a few other choices to install or update the software package. Choose one of them that you prefer.

Option 1: AppImage

Krita website now provides the latest package for Linux via AppImage package.

It’s a single non-install executable package. Like some exe/msi for MS Windows, user can simply double-click to run the package to launch software. Though, AppImage runs in sandbox.

First, go to the software website via the link below and click download the AppImage package:

Once you got the package, right-click on it and select “Properties” and enable “Allow execute file as program” checkbox under Permissions tab. Finally, click run the package to launch Krita.

Tip: Ubuntu 22.04 does not support AppImage out-of-the-box, run sudo apt install libfuse2 in terminal to enable it.

Option 2: Flatpak

Flatpak is another package format works on most Linux and runs in sandbox. Krita website also refers to this package, though it’s maintained by the community.

The downside of Flatpak package could be that a small app can require quite a few hundreds MB downloads for run-time libraries.

1. First, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the daemon package:

sudo apt install flatpak

2. Next, add the Flathub repository which hosts the package:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

3. Finally, install Krita as Flatpak using command:

flatpak install flathub org.kde.krita

After installing the package, user may try to update it at any time by running command:

flatpak update org.kde.krita

(Optional) To remove the Flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.kde.krita

And clean up useless runtime libraries via flatpak uninstall --unused

Option 3: Other Ubuntu PPAs

If you insisting on using the native .deb package, keep an eye on the 2 others PPAs below:

  • KUbuntu Backports PPA – It’s one of official KUbuntu PPAs that contains Plasma desktop, KDE apps, which also updates Krita packages.
  • UbuntuStudio PPA – It’s the official PPA for Ubuntu Studio contains most recent Krita along with other app packages for recent LTS (meaning Ubuntu 22.04).

NOTE: Both of the PPAs do not update as soon as a new release is out, but build packages once in a while.

Krita

Krita 4.2.8 was released a few days ago as a new bug-fix release with a lot of work done on vector shapes, the transform tool and, especially, saving on Windows.

Krita 4.2.8 includes following bug-fixes and/or improvements:

  • Save the preferences when closing the preferences dialog.
  • Save the last used export settings.
  • Possible to save the “All” tag as the current tag.
  • Show the correct blending mode in the brush preset editor.
  • Remove “Show Decorations” option from the transform tool.
  • Remove the CSV export filter
  • Rewrite “auto precision” option in brush preset editor.
  • Make Separate Channels work.
  • Disable adjustmentlayer support on the raindrop filter.
  • Possible to use .kra files as file layers.
  • Fix Rec2020 display format.
  • Add hi-res input events for pan, zoom and rotate.
  • Always ask Windows to synchronize the file systems after saving a file.
  • Fix wrong aspect ratio on loading SVG files.
  • And many crashes, and other bug-fixes, improvements.

How to Install Krita 4.2.8 in Ubuntu:

The Krita Lime PPA has built the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2. Then upgrade Krita via Software Updater:

upgrade krita

or run command one by one in terminal to install or upgrade the painting software:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install krita

Uninstall:

To remove the PPA, launch Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab.

To remove Krita, run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove krita krita-*

Krita

Digital painting software Krita 4.1.5 was released yesterday. The new release features much improved support for scaling on hi-dpi or retina screens, and many bugs fixed.

Krita 4.1.5 release highlights:

  • Associate Krita with .ico files
  • Auto-update the device pixel ration when changing screens
  • Disable autoscrolling for the pan tool
  • Disable drag & drop in the recent documents list
  • Disable zoom-in/out actions when editing text in rich-text mode
  • Do not add template files to recent documents list
  • Do not allow creating masks on locked layers.
  • Do not close the settings dialog when pressing enter while searching for a shortcut
  • Fill polyline shapes if some fill style was selected
  • Fix Tangent Normal paintop to work with 16 and 32 bit floating point images
  • Fix a problem with namespaces when loading SVG
  • Fix an assert when right-clicking the animation timeline
  • Fix autohiding the color selector popup
  • Fix canvas scaling in hidpi mode
  • Fix the overview docker
  • Fix the shift-I color selector shortcut
  • Fix unsuccessful restoring of a session blocking Krita from closing
  • Import SVG files as vector layers instead of pixel layers
  • Improve spacing between canvas input setting categories
  • Make it possible to select the SVG text tool text has been moved inside an hidden group and then made visible again
  • Support fractional display scaling factors

How to Install Krita 4.15 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux Mint 19, do following steps to install the latest release from Krita Lime PPA.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from software launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa

Type your user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Krita via Software Updater:

upgrade krita

or run command in terminal to install or upgrade the painting software:

sudo apt install krita

Uninstall:

To remove the PPA, launch Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab.

To remove Krita, run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove krita krita-*

Download Appimage for Ubuntu 16.04

For Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.x, grab the appimage from the link below:

Download Krita (.appimage)

Then right-click and make the appimage file executable from its ‘Properties’ dialog. Finally run the file to launch Krita.

Krita

The latest Krita digital painting 4.1.3 is finally available to install via Krita Lime PPA. Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19, and Ubuntu 18.10 are supported so far.

Krita 4.1.3 is a pretty important release includes about a hundred fixes. All users are urged to update as soon as possible.

Krita new welcome screen

For Ubuntu 18.10, Krita 4.1.3 can be installed easily via Ubuntu Software. For Ubuntu 18.04, do following steps to install it:

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from software launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa

Type your user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Krita via Software Updater:

upgrade krita

or run command in terminal to install or upgrade the painting software:

sudo apt install krita

Uninstall:

To remove the PPA, launch Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab.

To remove Krita, run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove krita krita-*

Krita 4.1.3 Released with About A Hundred of Fixes

Last updated: September 28, 2018

Krita

Digital painting software Krita 4.1.3 was released a day ago with about a hundred of bug-fixes. All users are urged to update.

Krita 4.1.3 includes following changes:

  • New welcome screen with some handy links, recent used files, etc.
  • Improvements to Instant Preview mode.
  • Improved the move tool so it’s possible to undo the steps you’ve set with the move tool
  • Added auto-smoothing option for the bezier curve tools
  • Added new feature round corners for the rectangle tool.
  • The Comics Project manager plugin received a ton of improvements.
  • And see the release note for details

How to Install Krita 4.1.3 in Ubuntu:

For all current Ubuntu releases, you can grab the single executable Appimage package for 64-bit system.

Krita 4.1.3 Appimage

Then give executable permission, and run to launch Krita 4.1.3:

You can also add the Krita Lime PPA to install the most recent packages, though the Krita 4.1.3 package is not published at the moment.