Install Krita 4.2.6 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint with 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.
New features:
- Add new layer from visible to layer right-click context menu.
- When running Krita for the first time on Windows, Angle is now the default renderer. Note that if you have an NVidia GPU and Krita’s window is transparent, you need to select Angle manually in Krita’s settings; if you have another GPU and you have problems with the canvas not updating, you might need to manually select OpenGL in the same window.
We want to especially thank Karl Ove Hufthammer for his extensive work on polishing the translatable string.
Bugs fixed
- Allow selection overlay to be reset to default. (BUG:410470)
- Set date for bundle creation to use ISO-Date. (BUG:410490)
- Fix freeze with 32bit float tiff by using our own tiff reader for the thumbnails. (BUG:408731)
- Ensure filter mask button is disabled appropriately depending on whether the filter supports it. (BUG:410374)
- Enable the small color selector if opengles is available as well (BUG:410602)
- Fix mixed Zoom, Pan, Rotate on macOS (BUG:410698)
- Ensure that checkboxes are shown in menus even when using the fusion theme
- Isolate Layer Crash (BUG:408785)
- Properly fix font resetting when all the text in the editor removed (BUG:409243)
- Fix lags in Move Tool when using tablet device (BUG:410838)
- Fix Shift and Alt modifiers in Outline Selection Tool (BUG:410532)
- Ensure Convert group to Animated Layer shows text in the toolbar. (BUG:410500)
- Allow ‘Add Clone Layer’ to Work on Multiple Layers (BUG:373338)
- Fix saving animated transparency masks created through conversion (BUG:409895)
- Partially fix the curve change despite ‘Share curve across all settings’ checked (BUG:383909)
- Try harder to make sure that the swap location is writable
- Properly handle timezones in bundles
- Make sure all the settings dialogs pages are always shown in the same order
- Make the settings dialog fit in low-res screens (BUG:410793)
- Remove misleading ‘px’ suffix for ‘move amount’ shortcut setting
- Make string for reasons for image export problems translatable (BUG:406973)
- Fix crash when creating a bezier curve (BUG:410572)
- Fix deadlocks in KoShapeManager (BUG:410909, BUG:410572)
- Fix a deadlock when using broken Wacom drivers on Linux (BUG:410797)
- Fix absolute brush rotation on rotated canvas (BUG:292726)
- Fix deadlock when removing reference image (BUG:411212)
- Fix a deadlock in handling of vector objects (BUG:411365)
- Fix autosave saving only once (BUG:411631)
How to Install Krita 4.2.6 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint System :
To iInstall Krita 4.2.6 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, Cosmic Cuttlefish, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Linux Mint 19.1, Elementary OS 5 'Juno', Peppermint, Deepin 15.8, Deepin 15.9, Linux Lite 4.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: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 just type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita 
Process Installtion :
After installation is completed, open krita on ubuntu menu dashboard :
