Install Pinta 1.6 in Debian Jessie 8.0

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.

You may also want to look at Krita, which is in the Debian repositories – good luck!

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Compile Remmina 1.1.x in Debian Jessie

Update: Okay this sucks; i'm still having copy/paste issues. But here's the post anyway:

UPDATE 2015 March: Okay this sucks even more, seems i had compilation issues and had to add more cmake flags; HOWEVER, upon install i had segmentation faults when running remmina.

SO, i've found an alternate and preferred method of installing: Add the unstable branch (debian experimental "sid") to your /etc/apt/sources.list and use sudo apt-get -t experimental install remmina freerdp to install the latest available.

i.e. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING
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Remmina 1.0.0 is still the latest version in Debian Jessie (Testing) as of Nov 2014. However Remmina itself is up to version 1.1.x now.

Recently I have had issues with copy/paste (clipboard redirection) not working, so I decided to try to update it. Although not difficult, it was not exactly super quick to find the dependencies either.

note: I always use aptitude but you could just as easily use apt-get.

We will use the github version of Remmina:

sudo aptitude install git
cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina.git

Of course, you probably already have the build tools; otherwise, install them:

sudo aptitude install build-essential

You may have issues with installing the following dependency due to a recent change in debian itself, but you should be able to work it out:

sudo aptitude install libgnutls28-dev

Now, we will install the rest of the dependencies:

sudo aptitude install libavahi-common-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-ui-gtk3-dev libvte-2.90-dev libappindicator3-dev libvncserver-dev libxkbfile-dev libfreerdp-dev libtelepathy-glib-dev

Now we can compile and install Remmina:

cd Remmina
cmake -DWITH_LIBSSH=OFF -DWITH_GNOMEKEYRING=OFF
make clean 
make
sudo make install

You need to make install otherwise it will not find the plugins.

I chose "keyring off" because I run XFCE and also when I compiled with it on, I still had copy/paste issues. However, that needs to be thoroughly tested and I was not interested in it.

Now you can run the new Remmina 1.1.x

killall remmina
remmina

good luck!

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Install Teamviewer 9 in 64bit Debain Wheezy/Jessie

Updated 2015 Feb 5.

Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie 64-bit cannot install ia32-libs due to a change in how multi-architecture works.

Teamviewer installation notes state that we cannot install teamviewer_linux_x64.deb, and must use the 32-bit teamviewer_i386.deb.

But, teamviewer_i386.deb depends on 32-bit libraries.  So we must add multi-architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 ; sudo apt-get update ;

Then if we attempt to install teamviewer_i386.deb, it reports we do not have dependencies met.  We can see the full dependency names by trying to install to package by name (since dpkg -i has added the info locally):

sudo apt-get install teamviewer

Using the output, we can install the dependencies manually:

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libasound2:i386 libfreetype6:i386 zlib1g:i386 libsm6:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxtst6:i386 libjpeg62:i386 libxinerama1:i386

Then we may install teamviewer properly:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/teamviewer_i386.deb
# I assume sudo apt-get install teamviewer would also work.

Note: Refer to http://steronius.blogspot.com/2014/02/replacing-logmein-with-teamviewer-on.html for killing/restarting teamviewer over ssh.

good luck.
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