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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run Sublime Text from OSX commandline

OSX is a little annoying that it's not quite as easy to symlink Sublime Text to a "/bin/command".  In doing so, so all kinds of cruft console output occurs.

But i've figured a better way to launch Sublime Text via commandline:

In your ~/.bash_profile add the following function:

function sublime() {
open -a Sublime\ Text.app "$@"
}


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BASH copy preserving timestamps in Linux and OSX

The cp command annoys me sometimes in that i expect my files to retain their time-stamps.  However, such is not the default.  To set this behavior automatically, aliases may be used.

In a Linux ~/.bashrc file, include the follwing alias:
alias cp="cp --preserve=timestamps"

In an OSX ~/.bash_profile, include the following alias:
alias cp="cp -p"

In both cases you will need to exit and restart bash.

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