{"id":48648,"date":"2025-04-13T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48648"},"modified":"2025-04-13T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:05:17","slug":"pinta-3-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/pinta-3-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinta 3.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35810\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pinta-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pinta, the popular free open-source drawing and image editing app, released new major 3.0 release yesterday. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.<\/p>\n<p>Pinta 3.0 features <b>GTK 4.0<\/b> and <b>Libadwaita<\/b> for its modern user interface that&#8217;s well integrated in recent GNOME desktop environments. It now automatically switches between light and dark depends on desktop color style, and fits well in different screen sizes with adaptive interface.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48649\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48649\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48649\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light-700x446.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light-700x446.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light-768x490.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-light.webp 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinta 3.0 light mode<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Besides the UI updates, the new release added some <b>new effects<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dithering<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Voronoi Diagram<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Vignette and Dents<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Feather Object<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Align Object<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Outline Object<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also restored <b>Add-ins<\/b> support, improved color picker dialog, added ability to change canvas grid size, and choose tile type and edge behavior in tile reflection effect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48650\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-addin-manager.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48650\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48650\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-addin-manager-700x519.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-addin-manager-700x519.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-addin-manager-300x222.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-addin-manager.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinta 3.0 add-in manager<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Export portable pixmap (.ppm) files<\/li>\n<li>Nearest-neighbor resampling mode when resizing images<\/li>\n<li>Customizable gradients in fractal and clouds effects<\/li>\n<li>Offset Selection (Ctrl+Shift+O) in Edit menu.<\/li>\n<li>Support trackpad pinch to zoom gesture.<\/li>\n<li>Support <code>[<\/code> and <code>]<\/code> keys to adjust brush size and line width.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are as well many other improvements and various bug-fixes. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PintaProject\/Pinta\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Github releases<\/a> page for details.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Pinta 3.0 in Ubuntu Linux<\/h3>\n<p>Pinta 3.0 is available to install in Ubuntu, through 3 different ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flatpak package,<\/li>\n<li>Snap package,<\/li>\n<li>Compile from source code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Option 1: Pinta Snap package<\/h4>\n<p>For all current Ubuntu releases, the easiest way to get the Pinta image editor is installing the official Snap package.<\/p>\n<p>It runs in sandbox environment, and so far supports both <code>amd64<\/code> (AMD\/Intel) and <code>arm64<\/code> (e.g., Raspberry Pi) platforms.<\/p>\n<p>To get it, simply search &amp; install Pinta in App Center (or Ubuntu Software for 22.04 and earlier).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48651\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap-700x429.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap-700x429.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap-300x184.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap-768x471.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pinta-snap.webp 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Option 2: Pinta Flatpak package<\/h4>\n<p>For choice, user may also install the image editor through <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a>, which also runs in sandbox environment and supports both <code>amd64<\/code> (AMD\/Intel) and <code>arm64<\/code> (e.g., Raspberry Pi) platforms.<\/p>\n<p><b>Linux Mint 21\/22<\/b> users can simply search and install the Pinta Flatpak package from Software Manager.<\/p>\n<p>While <b>Debian\/Ubuntu<\/b> &amp; other Linux may run the commands below one by one to install the package:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, press <code>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> to open up a terminal window. When it opens, run command to install Flatpak daemon:\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p>For other Linux, follow the official <a href=\"https:\/\/flatpak.org\/setup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setup guide<\/a> to enable Flatpak support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45732\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-700x501.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-700x501.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-768x550.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble.webp 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Next, run the single command below to install Pinta as Flatpak package:\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/flatpak-pinta.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48652\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/flatpak-pinta-700x528.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/flatpak-pinta-700x528.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/flatpak-pinta-300x226.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/flatpak-pinta.webp 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After installed the package, either launch from GNOME Overview or start menu depends on Desktop Environment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-pinta.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48653\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-pinta.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-pinta.webp 465w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/launch-pinta-300x183.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the app icon is not visible, either log out and back in to apply environment variable change, or use the command below instead to start from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak run com.github.PintaProject.Pinta<\/pre>\n<p>And, use the command below to check updates:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak update com.github.PintaProject.Pinta<\/pre>\n<h4>Option 3: Compile Pinta 3.0 from Source Code<\/h4>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like running the application in sandbox, or your CPU architecture type is not supported in the options above, then try building it from source.<\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE: This option does NOT work in Ubuntu 22.04 and earlier, as Pinta 3.0 requires GTK 4 &gt; 4.12 and LibAdwaita &gt;= 1.4 that only 24.04 and higher match.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. First, press <code>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> to open up a terminal window. Then run command below to install the dependency packages for building the project:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install dotnet8 build-essential autotools-dev autoconf-archive gettext intltool libadwaita-1-dev webp-pixbuf-loader<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/apt-pinta-deps.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48654\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/apt-pinta-deps-700x528.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/apt-pinta-deps-700x528.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/apt-pinta-deps-300x226.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/apt-pinta-deps.webp 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Next, download the Pinta 3.0 source tarball from Github page via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PintaProject\/Pinta\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Pinta (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the moment, it&#8217;s either &#8220;pinta-3.0.tar.gz&#8221; or &#8220;pinta-3.0.zip&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After downloaded the package, decompress it from your Downloads folder. Then, right-click on the extracted folder and select &#8220;<b>Open in Terminal<\/b>&#8221; to open source folder as working directory in terminal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48655\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal-700x469.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal-700x469.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal-768x515.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/open-pinta3-terminal.webp 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Finally, in the pop-up terminal window, run the commands below one by one to configure, build and install Pinta from source.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, configure the source:\n<pre>.\/configure<\/pre>\n<p><i>For choice, you may run <code>.\/configure --help<\/code> to list all available configure options.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Next, build via command:\n<pre>make -j4<\/pre>\n<p>Here <code>-j4<\/code> tells to start 4 threads in parallel. You may replace number 4 according how many CPU cores you have.<\/li>\n<li>If everything goes well, finally install Pinta via:\n<pre>sudo make install<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48656\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta-700x381.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta-700x381.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta-300x163.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta-768x418.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta-1320x719.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/compile-pinta.webp 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When done, either start Pinta from menu (or search from GNOME Overview), or run the command below to start from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>\/usr\/local\/pinta<\/pre>\n<h3>Uninstall Pinta 3.0<\/h3>\n<p>For Pinta Snap package, uninstall it either via App Center or Ubuntu Software, or by running the command below:<\/p>\n<pre>snap remove --purge pinta<\/pre>\n<p>To uninstall the Flatpak package, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.github.PintaProject.Pinta<\/pre>\n<p>Optionally run <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code> to remove useless runtime libraries.<\/p>\n<p>For Pinta compiled from source, open the source folder in terminal and run command to uninstall:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo make uninstall<\/pre>\n<p>If you already deleted the source folder, then try manually removing the installed files:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/bin\/pinta<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm -R \/usr\/local\/lib\/pinta<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/lib\/pkgconfig\/pinta.pc<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/share\/applications\/pinta.desktop<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/share\/pixmaps\/pinta.xpm<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/share\/locale\/*\/LC_MESSAGES\/pinta.mo<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/share\/metainfo\/pinta.appdata.xml<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo rm \/usr\/local\/share\/man\/man1\/pinta.1.gz<\/pre>\n<p>NOTE the last commands assumed you configured the source with default options that installed Pinta to <code>\/usr\/local<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinta, the popular free open-source drawing and image editing app, released new major 3.0 release yesterday. 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