How to install Krita 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Krita 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 17.04

Krita is a raster graphics editor based on Qt 5 and the KDE Frameworks 5 and is designed to be a digital painting application. Krita contains key features like the ability to work with both bitmap and vector illustration. This tutorial will explain on how to install krita on Ubuntu.

Features

• A large set of default brushes
• Customizable brush presets
• Multiple brush engines, supports pressure sensitivity, tilt and other features of graphics tablets
• Wrap around mode canvas for creating and visualizing seamlessly tiled textures
• OpenGL powered canvas with high-bit-depth monitor support
• Filters with real-time preview
• Supports a wide range of file formats and color models

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, add the krita package into repository via ppa.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa
This PPA delivers the freshest Krita packages for Ubuntu, directly picked
by the developers from the source tree.
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
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gpg: /tmp/tmp5fbdgc52/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 78F9887001CEE17F: public key " Launchpad PPA for Krita Lime (*experimental*)"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories has been added to the target machine. Update the machine by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease           
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease [21.3 kB] 
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                     
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease    
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Hit:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Fetched 26.4 kB in 2min 0s (218 B/s)                
Reading package lists... Done

The target machine is updated with the required repositories. Install the krita package by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install krita
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  kinit kio krita-data kwayland-data kwayland-integration libfam0 libgpgmepp6
  libgsl2 libkf5archive5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5codecs-data
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Setting up kinit (5.31.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kio (5.31.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up krita (1:3.1.3-1~zesty) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

To open the application, type the krita package name in the Ubuntu dashboard and click on the icon to launch the application.

The application is running successfully. Now the user can start using krita digital painting application for various sketching purposes.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Krita also supports a layer engine that allows deeply nested and grouped layers and also vector, clone, external-file and dynamic filter-effect layers.