First, sorry if this is a very noob question, I am still very new to the world of Loonix

so, I installed krita using the instructions from the official website (it is a fresh install with no previous krita installation, on a freshly installed linux mint KDE) :

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita

but... this installs Krita 2.8.5.
I thought that even on Linux, Krita 2.9 was out? can someone help me fix it? is the main site's install instructions not correct somehow?
thanks in advance.



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edit : got it KINDA working. I'd still like some help on the problem if possible.

I remember the download page had some more lines about a bleeding edge ppa (whatever it means, sorry, linux noob here), so I searched for it and found a page (http://dimula73.blogspot.com/2013/05/krita-lime-ppa-always-fresh-versions.html) that gave me that terminal code :

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita
sudo apt-get update
sudo sudo apt-get install krita-testing krita-testing-dbg

since the program now uses ~700mb instead of less than 100mb when using the above code and I can't change the theme and a few other things are broken, I doubt this is the right way to install it, so, I'd still like some help on the problem if possible.

Thanks in advance.

s-sorry for the bump, but really NOBODY in the forums has any idea what happened and/or how to fix it? I'm low on disk space, I'd like krita not to use close to 1 gb if possible.

please help.

Sorry, we're always really buzy, so these things slip by, :/

You can choose to deinstall the debug symbols package: That should make it lighter, but then you can't generate crash-reports.

The reason Kubuntu backports doesn't have Krita 2.9 on Ubuntu 14.04(your version of mint is this one) is because apparantly we updated our colour management library, and they can't backport that. So you either use Krita Lime, or try to update to a newer version of Ubuntu. :/

Yes, this situation is *sad* for all Linux Mint ( based on 14.04 , and still will be in one year ) , for all Elementary O.S. , and for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I personnaly doesn't consider 14.10 and 15.04 'buntu release as 'stable' or last versions. Support of 6 month only... They feel like beta version for the real product , the next LTS ( 16.04 ) . That's why probably Mint, Elementary, and other 'buntu based distro stick to 14.04.

Users of ppa:dimula73/krita , often report missing icons in start-up menu , no file associations, etc... Very rude for users. The situation of 14.04 user is really bad and I feel sad about it, but I don't have the skill to start a PPA...

It's something I want to look into. I'm not sure why *buntu doesn't build Krita 2.9 for 14.04, though. In general, much as I love linux, providing packages for different distributions is a royal pain. I maintain a CentOS 6.4 repo, Dmitry is doing his best with the lime packages, but what's really needed is for distributions to get off their high horses and agree on a standard package format. Not that there's any chance of that: even while they're working to replace deb and rpm with 'containers', they're all doing their own not-invented-here thing.

In the meantime, it's of course a bit of a waste that I and Dmitry spend time building packages for Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows and OSX instead of writing code...

TheraHedwig wrote:Sorry, we're always really buzy, so these things slip by

I forgive you.

TheraHedwig wrote:You can choose to deinstall the debug symbols package: That should make it lighter, but then you can't generate crash-reports.
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thank you, I will do that.

TheraHedwig wrote:The reason Kubuntu backports doesn't have Krita 2.9 on Ubuntu 14.04(your version of mint is this one) is because apparantly we updated our colour management library, and they can't backport that. So you either use Krita Lime, or try to update to a newer version of Ubuntu. :/

so, beside using this "Krita Lime", what choice do I have? I am already using the last version of Mint. so I take it there is currently no "official" way for Mint users to use 2.9+ sans Lime?
I'll keep using the Lime version of Krita, but if I wanted to do thing right, would upgrading to Ubuntu 14.10 allow me to install Krita 2.9 and above? I mean, that backport issue, it only affects *buntu 14.04? so the new release (14.1) should work fine and we'd be able to install Krita 2.9 normally, correct? (and so, if the next Mint is also based on 14.1, it should also work fine, yes?)

again, sorry for sounding a bit clueless, I'm still new to the world of Linux.

No, don't worry, using Lime and then installing krita-2.9 instead of krita-testing is as official as it gets for Mint 17.1 users. (Testing is the non-stable version, which means that it may contain bugs we're still trying to figure out).

We're discussing ways to make it less obnoxious

ok, I see. thanks for all the help and your work!