Hello KDE/Krita forum,

I've been trying to install version 2.9 of Krita on Linux Mint, but I've been unable to do so using the following commands:

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

Doing this gets me version 2.8.5 every time, NOT 2.9. I'm thinking perhaps I'm not uninstalling 2.8 properly? I've gone into synaptic package manager and removed the PPA manually, and I've used the command -

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sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove krita

- to uninstall it. But when I run the first set of commands, it re-installs Version 2.8, not 2.9.

What more can I do to get version 2.9? If anyone can maybe walk me through the steps, it would be very much appreciated. I've been working on this for a few days, and no luck yet.

All help will be greatly appreciated.

I wanted to give an update on this since I've still been working on it. While so far I've tried using terminal, I've checked the Software Manager in Mint, and I noticed the Krita install is labeled version "1:2.8.5-0ubuntu6~ubuntu14.04~ppa1". Is it possible there is no 2.9 version for MintOS at this time? Is there anyone using Krita 2.9 on Mint here?

I'm still looking for any help regarding this issue.

You need to use the Krita Lime ppa. Stable distributions are always super slow with new versions of software if it's not important for security, and Krita uses special color management libraries that aren't in the kubuntu backports ppa, so we provide builts via the lime ppa.

Thank you for the reply! Is this where I can get the Lime PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dimula73/+archive/ubuntu/krita ?

I'll see if trying it out works!