Hi there,
I need to know exactly which packages needed for me to install krita on Ubuntu.. Everytime I install it, it says that there are kde packages missing.. I tried Linux Mint kde, and I liked it, but suffered from many problems with the internet connection.. This is something I can't cope with.. So, I'm back to using Ubuntu since I had no problems with connection.. I want to know whether should I install kde-full package or kdebase to run krita.. Please help

how are you installing Krita, the package manager is supposed to resolve dependencies

do you have the Kubuntu ppa configured? if you also add the Kubuntu backport ppa it might have a newer version

you don't indicate the version of Ubuntu nor KDE, sometimes it helps

I am installing it using terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit)... I haven't installed KDE yet; I need to know which packages should I install

What you have there sounds good. apt-get should take care of installing all necessary dependencies.

Cheers,
Sven

Thank you guys.. um trying again right now.. will update you as soon as I download and install it

please post the output from the "apt-get" command

you could try removing the backport ppa and and adding the regular KDE ppa and see if that works

I don't use Kubuntu so my advice is iffy - sorry

I installed Krita from the software manager after adding the Kubuntu ppa backports. Here is what I get when I try running the program

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abdelrahman@abdelrahman-Inspiron-N5110:~$ krita
Legacy integer arithmetics implementation
krita(8293)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found!

krita(8293)/koffice (lib komain): "krita" part.desktop not found.

krita(8293)/koffice (lib komain): Run 'kde4-config --path services' to see which directories were searched, assuming kde startup had the same environment as your current shell.

krita(8293)/koffice (lib komain): Check your installation (did you install Calligra in a different prefix than KDE, without adding the prefix to /etc/kderc ?)

run in Konsole or Krunner

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental  2> /dev/null

I ran the command and this is what I got when I tried running Krita:

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Legacy integer arithmetics implementation
krita(2884)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found!

Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/HL_DT_ST_DVD_2b_RW_GT50N_KWRB9S22211" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD5000BPVT_75HXZT3_WD_WXT1EC0ENFK1" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD5000BPVT_75HXZT3_WD_WXT1EC0ENFK1" : property "DeviceNumber" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD5000BPVT_75HXZT3_WD_WXT1EC0ENFK1" : property "Device" does not exist
Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
krita(2884): couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files"
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
QImage::scaled: Image is a null image
Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
krita(2884): couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files"
Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
krita(2884): Couldn't start knotify from knotify4.desktop:  "KLauncher could not be reached via D-Bus. Error when calling start_service_by_desktop_path:
The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files
"

krita(2884)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::slotReceivedIdError: Error while contacting notify daemon "The name org.kde.knotify was not provided by any .service files"
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found
krita(2884)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "ThumbCreator"  not found

When Krita opened, I got this notification msg:

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Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files.

Unlike before, the program was working this time, but all the icons were blank... For example, the tool palette has all the tools, but I don't see their icons, so I can't know which one is what

Lacking "klauncher" is quite odd - it is part of kdelibs. Which kdelibs5-* packages do you have installed? If there is a kdelibs5-bin package, please install it.

do you have kdelib5-plugins installed? if not install it

Thank you guys.. it worked. kdelibs5-plugins is what was needed since it includes kdelibs-bin in it. I have to add that for anyone to run Krita in Ubuntu the oxygen-icon-theme should be installed, for you to be able to see the icons of the program.

Conclusion (a step-by-step guide to run Krita in Ubuntu):
in Terminal, write the following commands:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kdelibs5-plugins oxygen-icon-theme
sudo apt-get install krita


Abdelrahman - Thanks for posting this! You saved me a lot of time & effort getting Krita to run on Ubuntu x64.

You are welcome waltz... um really happy this was a help for you... However, I did nothing; the credit really goes to google01103 and bcooksley, so thanks for both them