Hello out there,

I`m using Linux Mint, and it seems that krita 4.01 is the newest version useable on this distribution - true?

Tried' "everything" given on the krita manual. During the installation process of the .appimage, I' ve read "...not cool" sometimes. After, krita 4.2.9 starts limited (only a few brushes are there, no fullscreen possible, ...).

It is possible to run the .appimage "directly", but this can not be the real thing.

Is there anything I can do? I came from Windows 7 (using Linux since yesterday ), and started a project based on a newer krita-version, and would realy like to continue my work.


Have a nice day!

Hey, welcome to Linux, and welcome to all the issues existing here for packaging. True, Linux Mint is in fact very old: it is built on the top of Ubuntu 18.04 released on april 2018; so you have the version of Krita of that time because the package management of this type of distribution is like that: they care about bringing you latest Firefox, LibreOffice sometime and also all the Linux Mint interface and security patch; but for all other packages, they don't touch it: they are exactly all the same than at release time.

The appimage is a good way to run a 2020 Krita into a 2018 system. Coming from Windows this idea of installing new software on a 2 year old system sounds like common sens, but on Ubuntu based Linux this is new (During years I had here to reinstall my system to get newer Krita).

I'm surprised you tell you have a limited experience with the appimage. It shouldn't. I also use 4.2.9 from krita.org as appimage and I can go fullscreen and get all the default brushes installed. I wrote on my guide here a part about installing Krita appimage with a icon in menu: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article761/k ... tall-guide . It might help. Good luck.

You also need to make double-plus sure the distribution version of Krita is not around anymore; since it's installed to /usr, any other version of Krita will try to load its plugins and resources, and that will lead to enormous problems.

Deevad wrote:

Thank you so far! I'm too tired at time, will read and answer later!

"boudewijn"

It seems that I found out that it is impossible to install Software properly (and keep it updated) to a Linux system: You are dependent to a package managing-system (which has to be recent - if not, bad luck), or decompress the source manually, but have to know the dependences to other programs / plug-ins / whatever...

How should I know which parts of an older krita-installation are back there?

And I'm sorry I missed you (2?) years ago, in my neighbourhood in Saarbruecken:).

To make appimages integrate more automatically you can try AppImageLauncher:
https://launchpad.net/~appimagelauncher ... ntu/stable

But yes there are no automatic updates updates with appimages yet (I just see there's some progress on the merge request though...)

You could also try other packaged ways to get krita.
kritalime ppa is one way, although I would not really recommend it until Mint is Ubuntu 20.04 based, because Qt 5.9 lacks quite a few fixes and improvements relevant for krita, so I myself stopped using kritalime with krita 4.2 in favor of appimages.

Then there's flatpak and snap, but I don't know how well those are integrated into the Mint package management (if at all).
Only ever tried one flatpak and figured it's way too heavy and complicated to setup for what I wanted, it's a completely separate package management and comes with a hefty initial footprint due to how containerized (and hence independent of distribution) it is.

@nachtgold:
The appimage is very much the 'real thing' because it's built by the krita developers using KDE build facilities and comes directly from the KDE binary factory server.
You can also get a more 'updated' version, the 'Plus' version, which has some recent bug fixes applied before these get incorporated into the next formal release from here:
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... age_Build/

You can create a menu entry for the appimage so it gets listed in your Graphics applications and you can set .kra files (or any image file) to be automatically opened by the appimage when you click them.

@Lynx3D:
I'd be very wary of an appimage that can automatically update itself. For me, the entire point of an appimage is that it never changes and it's up to me to decide if I want an updated version, which I can download, and then I can keep the previous appimage for use in case of problems with the new version.

I'd be happy with an optional notification that an update is available but no internet access unless I actively allow that to happen.

@Deevad: Thanks a lot – I changed to kubuntu, and this is what I was searching for.
I read an article about Linux Distributions, and the basic message was „Mint is the most popular Linux Distribution…“, so I had choosen that one first. Later I realized, that the article was from 2018.

On Mint, I was able to use the appimage by doubbleclick on the downoaded file -but that seemed to be wrong:). So I unpacked it, and during the unpacking process, there were multiple error messages, ending with „not cool“.
After, I started Krita, and had no fullscreen-options (no button, not possible to doubleclick on the top of the window), and only a few brushes.


@Lynx3d: Thank you, I noted down that there is the „ appimagelauncher“. But may not necessary because I changed to „kubuntu“.

@ahabgreybeard: It felt kind of strange to just start a „standalone executable file“ and work with it.It may be possible / necessary on some distributions, but I use kubuntu since today, and it seems to be nice (and it will „stay alive“ at least until 2023).

Thanks for the feedback! Have a fun painting time @nachtgold

No, thank YOU MORE - for the inspiration to get kubuntu!