How to Install Krita 4.1.2 on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 and Linux Mint (PPA)

Krita is an open source application that provides users with a sophisticated graphical software for creating amazing paintings, drawings, sketches, and any other type of artwork. It was previously distributed as part of the deprecated KOffice office suite for the KDE desktop environment.

Features at a glance

The application features painting tools with brushes and colors, support for layers and channels, gradients, airbrush, erase tool, simple geometric forms, undo and redo support, zoom, color selections, as well as many filters. In addition, it allows users to create brushes from squares and circles, load and save images in the app’s native file format, add, merge, reorder and remove layers, or to load GIMP brushes, pipe brushes, patterns and gradients.

The program also allows users to use patterns and colours for filling the background, import and export images in any other format that is supported by the ImageMagick program, create layers with transparency, use RGB(A), gray(A) and color models, use high-quality scaling, and much more. Another interesting feature is the ability to work with Wacom tablets, which makes this application perfect for processional graphicians who want to create amazing artwork for blockbuster video games.

Krita 4.1.2, the first bug fix release for Krita 4.1.1.

• Fix loading PyKrita when using PyQt 5.11 (patch by Antonio Rojas, thanks!) (BUG:396381)
• Fix possible crashes with vector objects (BUG:396145)
• Fix an issue when resizing pixel brushes in the brush editor (BUG:396136)
• Fix loading the system language on macOS if more than one language is enabled in macOS
• Don’t show the unimplemented color picker button in the vector object tool properties docker (BUG:389525)
• Fix activation of the autosave time after a modify, save, modify cycle (BUG:393266)
• Fix out-of-range lookups in the cross-channel curve filter (BUG:396244)
• Fix an assert when pressing PageUp into the reference images layer
• Avoid a crash when merging layers in isolated mode (BUG:395981)
• Fix loading files with a transformation mask that uses the box transformation filter (BUG:395979)
• Fix activating the transform tool if the Box transformation filter was selected (BUG:395979)
• Warn the user when using an unsupported version of Windows
• Fix a crash when hiding the last visible channel (BUG:395301)
• Make it possible to load non-conforming GPL palettes like https://lospec.com/palette-list/endesga-16
• Simplify display of the warp transformation grid
• Re-add the Invert Selection menu entry (BUG:395764)
• Use KFormat to show formatted numbers (Patch by Pino Toscano, thanks!)
• Hide the color sliders config page
• Don’t pick colors from fully transparent reference images (BUG:396358)
• Fix a crash when embedding a reference image
• Fix some problems when saving and loading reference images (BUG:396143)
• Fix the color picker tool not working on reference images (BUG:396144)
• Extend the panning range to include any reference images

How to Install Krita 4.1.2 on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 and Linux Mint Flavours :

This PPA delivers the freshest Krita packages for Ubuntu, directly picked
by the developers from the source tree.

If you have Ubuntu 16.10 or newer, please use Krita from this repository, this is an officially recommended way alongside AppImage builds.

To install Krita, Open terminal and just type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install krita

If you also want to install translations:

sudo apt-get install krita-l10n

After installation is completed, open krita using this commad :

sudo krita

or, search krita on ubuntu menu dashboard, like this :

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.