This is an extremely feature rich application, we have just listed noteworthy few features below. Let’s review the prominent features of Krita and its installation process on Ubuntu Linux. The latest version of this application Krita 2.9.6 is out now.

It provides large set of brush engines, openGL supported canvas, filters with real time preview, and support for large number of file formats and color models. It successfully handles bitmap and vector illustration, and is most widely used digital painting and illustrator app. The appimage is usable and lightweight, although I can't be sure for its speed and responsiveness due to my low-end hardware with integrated graphics.Ībove all, Krita appimage might be the answer to satisfy your need.Krita is a well known raster graphic application and is part of Calligra suit originally it is designed for KDE desktop, but works flawlessly on GNOME, Unity and all other popular desktop environments. Newer versions of Krita appimage have larger download size, which is still half the size of, or even smaller than Krita Debian package with both download and installation size combined. The earliest version I had tested on Linux 64-bit was Krita 3.0.1, whose appimage was only 80 MB. Krita package on Debian: ~208 MB (4.1.7, Buster).Krita package on Ubuntu: ~330 MB (4.0.1, Bionic).Krita appimage: 0 MB (requires no install).Krita package on Debian: ~75 MB (4.1.7, Buster).Krita package on Ubuntu: ~140 MB (4.0.1, Bionic).Note that Krita appimage is available for 64-bit Linux system only. # open this terminal into the folder you have the appimage Running the appimage seems familiar and easy. 90% of the time this is by far the easiest way to get the latest Krita. Krita documentation includes this installation notes that had suggested first to try the appimage for Krita 3.0 and later releases.įor Krita 3.0 and later, first try out the appimage from the website first.

It is now possible to run Krita on GNU/Linux using the appimage provided at Krita Desktop download. Don't install, just download and run Krita.

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