Paint.NET is a very nice PaintShop Pro alternative for Windows. And luckily, Pinta is fantastic Linux alternative of Paint.NET.
I had Pinta installed in my Debian 8.0 (Jessie) and it was stuck at version 1.5.
I actually use Pinta’s Ubuntu repo to install it and as it turns out I needed to change the repo to reference the “Trusty” version to upgrade to Pinta 1.6.
When I changed as such, the upgrade reported depedency problems with mono, specifically it seems mono v4 must have recently came out.
To resolve my issue i had to first purge pinta and mono-runtime, then reinstall them.
sudo aptitude purge pinta mono-runtime
edit your
/etc/apt/sources.list to include:#Pinta
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable/ubuntu trusty main
Then update and install:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install mono-runtime pinta
Pinta should now be v1.6.
Please consider crypto tipping:
I tried Krita. The tool to change brush sizes is broken. As soon as I click on it, the brush size jumps to 500 pixels, and the sliders don't work, and I can't enter as size either.
ReplyDeleteIf only the gimp were not completely broken, I would stick with that, but tried everything, and I can't get paint, the most basic feature, to work.
Looking for any documentation to install Pinta on Linux debian/Mint. Unfortunately, Mint completely hides which version of debian it is based on. The only clue is /etc/debian_release, which in my case says "jessie/sid".
Did you get 1.6 installed? This instruction might be stale now. Pinta is great, but also pissed me off enough to where i uninstalled it (Mono issues i assume).
DeleteYou might consider adding Jessie Backports as a repo. I also have testing/sid in my repo's and i get the following for pinta versions:
$ aptitude versions pinta
Package pinta:
p 1.3-3 stable 700
p 1.5-0ppa2~saucy1 saucy 500
p 1.6-0ppa1~trusty1 trusty 500
p 1.6-2 testing,unstable 650