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Home / How To / Install Krita on Ubuntu – Ms Paint Alternative For Linux

Install Krita on Ubuntu – Ms Paint Alternative For Linux

By Sourabh / June 27, 2022 Category: How To, Ubuntu

How to install the latest version of Krita in Ubuntu 22.04 via PPA. Users can install Krita, MS Paint alternative for Linux Ubuntu.

The Krita comes with drawing assistants to assist you with vanishing points and straight lines. The Assistant Tool comes with 9 unique assistants to help you make that perfect shape. These tools range from drawing ellipses to creating curvilinear perspective with the Fisheye Point tool.

Krita supports full color management through LCMS for ICC and OpenColor IO for EXR, allowing you to incorporate Krita into your existing color management pipeline.

Install Krita 5.0.8 in Ubuntu via PPA

Linux Ubuntu users can install the latest version of Krita 5.0.8 via Krita Lime PPA. 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

If you also want to install translations:

sudo apt-get install krita-l10n
sudo add-apt-repository \ "http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu main/debug"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita-dbgsym

Note: older versions of Ubuntu (including 16.04) are not supported by this repository due to outdated version of Qt library provided. Please use AppImage builds instead https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/

For Krita 3.0 and later, try out the AppImage from the website. Just download the AppImage, and then use the file properties or the bash command chmod to make the AppImage executable. Double-click it, and enjoy Krita. (Or run it in the terminal with ./appimagename.appimage)

Open the terminal into the folder you have the AppImage.
chmod a+x krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage
./krita-3.0-x86_64.appimage

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