How to install Krita on Parrot OS 3.9

To install Krita on Parrot OS 3.9

Krita is a free and open source digital painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. It is built based on Qt 5 and KDE frameworks and is one of the widely used rastor graphics editor. It is very simple to install Krita on Parrot OS 3.9, and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Krita

To begin with the installation procedure, add required repository in sources.list file using vim editor. Save and exit the changes.

[root@linuxhelp]?[~]
#vim /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

Once it is done, you need to update your machine by making use of the following command.

[root@linuxhelp]?[~]
#apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable InRelease
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release [118 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release.gpg [2,479 B]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Sources [6,754 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free Sources [79.7 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Sources [44.7 kB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages [7,097 kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-en [5,395 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib amd64 Packages [50.9 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Translation-en [45.9 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free amd64 Packages [78.0 kB]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free Translation-en [79.2 kB]
Fetched 19.7 MB in 1min 22s (241 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

After that, you need to install Krita in your machine and for that, you need to run the following command.

[root@linuxhelp]?[~]
#apt-get install krita
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Setting up libraw16:amd64 (0.18.5-1) ...
Setting up libopencolorio1v5 (1.0.9~dfsg0-11+b1) ...
Setting up krita (1:3.3.2.1+dfsg-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Configuring sandbox profiles....
Sandbox profiles updated!

Your Krita application has been installed, you shall launch it by Graphics ---> Krita

You can also check the version of the Krita application which you' ve just installed when the application is getting loaded.

When the application is open, the editor of the application appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of Krita on Parrot OS 3.9 has been completed.

FAQ
Q
My ppa not gets added properly?
A
you can run the latest krita release using the app image file provided by wget https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/3.1.4/krita-3.1.4-x86_64.appimage
Q
Where are the configuration files stored in Linux?
A
These are stored at the following places for the following operating systems:



Linux

$HOME/.config/kritarc
Q
How to run app image for krita?
A
Right-click on the downloaded appimage file and click properties. Click on Permissions tab and check the box to make it executable after that close and double click on it
Q
What are the alternatives for krita?
A
Adobe products like adobe photoshop or adobe illustrator which are paid ones and also like Affinity Photo
Q
Is TIFF supported in krita?
A
Yes it is supported