Krita 2.9.2 is out, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

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Krita 2.9.2 is out, You can Install on OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, Chakra Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Krita is an open source application that provides users with a sophisticated graphical software for creating amazing paintings, drawings, sketches, and any other type of artwork. It was previously distributed as part of the deprecated KOffice office suite for the KDE desktop environment.

What's new in Krita 2.9.2:

• Make the eraser end of the stylus erase by default
• Make krita remember the presets chosen for each stylus and stylus end
• Don’t show the zoom level on-canvas message while loading
• Fix initialization of the multi-brush axis
• Add some more kickstarter backers to the about box
• Fix memory leak when loading presets (and a bunch more memory leaks)
• Fix crashes related to progress reporting when running a g’mic action
• Add a toggle button to hide/show the filter selection tree in the filter dialog
• Fix a focus bug that made it hard to edit e.g. layer names when activating the editor in the docker with a tablet stylus
• Fix geometry of the toolbox on startup in some cases
• Fix lock proportions in the free transform tool when locking aspect ratio
• Add an option to hide the docker titlebars
• Update the resource manager lists after loading a resource bundle
• Make the resource manager look for bundles by default
• Make Krita start faster by only loading images for the references docker when the references docker is visible
• Fix a crash in the g’mic docker when there’s no preview widget selected
• On switching images, show the selected layer in the layer box, not the bottom one
• Show the selected monitor profile in the color management settings page instead of the default one
• Make the Image Split dialog select the right export file type.
• Fix saving and loading masks for file layers
• Make the default MDI background darker
• Fix loading some older .kra files that contained an image name with a number after a /
• Don’t crash if the linux colord colormanager cannot find a color-managed output device
• Clean the code following a number of PVS studio code analyzer warnings
• Add tooltips to the presets in the popup palette
• Fix a problem where brush presets in the popup palette were sometimes misaligned
• Fix loading most types of images in the reference docker on Windows

The application features painting tools with brushes and colors, support for layers and channels, gradients, airbrush, erase tool, simple geometric forms, undo and redo support, zoom, color selections, as well as many filters. In addition, it allows users to create brushes from squares and circles, load and save images in the app’s native file format, add, merge, reorder and remove layers, or to load GIMP brushes, pipe brushes, patterns and gradients.

The program also allows users to use patterns and colours for filling the background, import and export images in any other format that is supported by the ImageMagick program, create layers with transparency, use RGB(A), gray(A) and color models, use high-quality scaling, and much more. Another interesting feature is the ability to work with Wacom tablets, which makes this application perfect for processional graphicians who want to create amazing artwork for blockbuster video games.

How To Install Krita 2.9.2 on OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, Chakra Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Use the following PPA:

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

Note: Previous versions of Krita MUST be uninstalle

OpenSUSE

Visit KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.

Fedora

Fedora packages are available in the stable repository for Fedora 20 and 21 with the name 'calligra-krita'.

Gentoo

The e-build for Calligra Suite is in the portage tree as: app-office/calligra-2.7.00. You can use this to install Krita as well; there might be newer versions as well.

Chakra

Krita is part of the Calligra Suite, avaliable in the Chakra official repositories. To install Krita simply run this command:

sudo pacman -S calligra-krita