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How to install Gnome-paint on Linuxmint 18.03

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To install Gnome-paint on Linuxmint 18.03
Gnome-Paint is a simple and very basic painting application designed for the Gnome desktop with a typical interface. It supports all the basic functions of the paint tool and has two sidebars: one is a tool selection and other is a color selection.


Installation

Update the system repository using the apt-get command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucioc/sayonara/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                   
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                        
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                              
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                 
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [796 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [727 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [636 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [581 kB]
Fetched 3,064 kB in 5s (534 kB/s)  
Reading package lists... Done

Install the gnome-paint application.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install gnome-paint -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcurl3 libmcrypt4
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-paint
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 383 not upgraded.
Need to get 82.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 529 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gnome-paint amd64 0.4.0-4ubuntu2 [82.8 kB]
Fetched 82.8 kB in 1s (74.9 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package gnome-paint.
(Reading database ... 221676 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gnome-paint_0.4.0-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gnome-paint (0.4.0-4ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gnome-paint (0.4.0-4ubuntu2) ...

Once the application is installed you can access the application from the menu as follows
menu

Gnome-paint application.
gnome_paint

Version of Gnome Paint application
gnome_paint_version

With this, the method to install Gnome-paint on Linuxmint 18.03 comes to an end

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

Is it comes by default?

A

At gnome it comes by dafault

Q

How to Install Gnome-Paint in Ubuntu?

A

Gnome-Paint is a simple and very basic painting application designed for the Gnome desktop which you can also use in Ubuntu Linux as well (obviously). But remember, this is not an advanced tool and some "must have" type features such as Text tool and the Zoom in-out tools are not completed yet thus you can't use them!.

Q

What are the main features in Gnome-paint?

A

. To your left you'll see a list of tools such as: Crop, color picker, eraser and few types of selection tools. But you cannot use Text and the zoom tools, yet.

*. Undo/Redo.

*. Flip, rotate and load various types of images.

*. Invert colors.

Q

What is the Gnome-paint?

A

GNU Paint (gpaint) is a simple, easy-to-use paint program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop. Gpaint starts as a port of xpaint and takes advantages of features unique to the GNOME environment. Gpaint is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

Q

What are the Drawing tools?

A

Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for polygons and closed freehand.

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