{"id":32164,"date":"2020-08-06T07:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32164"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:14:03","slug":"pinta-1-7-released-install-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/pinta-1-7-released-install-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinta 1.7 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open source painting software <b>Pinta 1.7<\/b> was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p>Pinta 1.7 is the first release in over 5 years. Release highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added a tab view to switch between images.<\/li>\n<li>Rotate \/ Zoom dialog now supports zooming and panning<\/li>\n<li>Added a Smooth Erase tool<\/li>\n<li>The Pencil tool can switch between different blend modes.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for JASC PaintShop Pro palette files.<\/li>\n<li>The transform tools can now rotate in fixed increments by holding Shift.<\/li>\n<li>The Move Selected tool can now scale by holding Ctrl.<\/li>\n<li>Dragging and dropping a URL (e.g. image from a web browser) to download and open the image<\/li>\n<li>Rewritten user guide.<\/li>\n<li>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinta-project.com\/releases\/1-7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note for details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta17.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta17-450x269.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Pinta 1.7 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~pinta-maintainers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/pinta-stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinta official PPA<\/a> has made the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 19,x and 20.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open <u>terminal<\/u> from system application menu, and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers\/pinta-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"92\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pinta-ppa-focal-450x74.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then you can upgrade Pinta from an old release via Software Updater (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/upgrade-pinta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run apt command in terminal to install or upgrade the software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install pinta<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, either use <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>, or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:pinta-maintainers\/pinta-stable<\/pre>\n<p>And remove Pinta if you want via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove pinta<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source painting software Pinta 1.7 was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. Pinta 1.7 is the first release in over 5 years. Release highlights include: Added a tab view to switch between images. Rotate \/ Zoom dialog now supports zooming and panning Added a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1241],"class_list":["post-32164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-pinta"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}