How to install Pinta on Debian 8.3
How to install Pinta on Debian 8.3
Pinta is a lightweight image editor with a wide collection of tools and options. It is used for performing animation effects such as resizing images, adjusting the colours of images, adding effects to the pictures, etc. This tutorial will explain on how to install Pinta on Debian 8.3.
Installation procedure
To begin with the installation, use the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.
root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
The sources.list configuration file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Next execute the apt-get update command to update the apt sources-list configuration file in the target system.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
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Fetched 23.5 MB in 7min 27s (52.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install the Pinta package by running the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install pinta
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binfmt-support cli-common libgdiplus libglib2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil
libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil
libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil
libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil mono-4.0-gac mono-gac
mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen
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Setting up pinta (1.3-3) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...
Once the package is installed click on the Activities window and type the Pinta package name in the Ubuntu dashboard and click on the icon to run the application.
Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Pinta also supports unlimited undo history, multiple language support, and flexible toolbar arrangement.
It is used for performing animation effects such as resizing images, adjusting the
colours of images, adding
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main