Hello,

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 and I added Krita Lime PPA. I currently have Krita 2.85 installed but when I try to run:

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sudo apt-get install krita

It just says, "software is up to date". It's almost like it's not using the Krita Lime PPA source. I'm thinking of trying a different distro but just wanted to make sure I wasn't forgetting something.

Thanks!
Leo

p.s. Does Krita 2.9 beta install on Elementary OS?

It probably isn't: try

sudo apt-get install krita-testing krita-testing-dbg

But do make sure every bit of the Mint provided krita is gone.

I removed the Krita and then ran your commands and I got the following output:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  calligra-data libakonadi-kde4 libakonadiprotocolinternals1 libastro1
  libcauchy0.0 libkabc4 libkcalcore4 libkldap4 libkresources4 libkrossui4
  libm2mml0.0 libmarblewidget19 libphononexperimental4 libqjson0 libsoprano4
  libspnav0 marble-data soprano-daemon
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgsl0ldbl
Suggested packages:
  gsl-ref-psdoc gsl-doc-pdf gsl-doc-info gsl-ref-html
Recommended packages:
  create-resources pstoedit
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  calligra-libs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  krita-testing krita-testing-dbg libgsl0ldbl
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/162 MB of archives.
After this operation, 646 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 199061 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing calligra-libs (1:2.8.5-0ubuntu6~ubuntu14.04~ppa1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libgsl0ldbl.
(Reading database ... 198976 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgsl0ldbl_1.16+dfsg-1ubuntu1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libgsl0ldbl (1.16+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package krita-testing.
Preparing to unpack .../krita-testing_2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking krita-testing (2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package krita-testing-dbg.
Preparing to unpack .../krita-testing-dbg_2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking krita-testing-dbg (2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Setting up libgsl0ldbl (1.16+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up krita-testing (2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Setting up krita-testing-dbg (2+git20150115+r73626-51-dk~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...


But I do not see Krita in my applicatios nor does running "krita" from the terminal start the program. It's like nothing was installed.

I just installed Linux Mint 17, so I have no problem trying a different distro if it helps

Fro some reason, on ubuntu, Krita Lime gets installed in /opt/project-neon/krita.

Check there.

Thanks to you both for the help! I found it and it works

I don't want to get into a distro war, but is there a distro I should try before sticking to Mint? Just curious as to what the Krita community prefers.

The one distro that I totally bar is Ubuntu (not Kubuntu, Ubuntu). It messes with libraries and color management and menus and things... For development, I use OpenSUSE. Others use Fedora. For people who are really knowledgeable, Arch is a good choice. Mint should be fine. We don't hear a lot about Mageia these days. Gentoo is awesome, but if you've got a bug, you need to spend quite a few hours investigating whether it's something distro-specifc before reporting it. If you use Linux From Scratch, don't come and tell me that Krita doesn't build -- that's your job, then. Personally, I keep using Kubuntu and OpenSUSE.