How to install MyPaint in Ubuntu
To install MyPaint in Ubuntu
MyPaint is a simple painting tool designed with wacom-style graphics tablets. It is featured with highly configurable brush engine, speed, and a full screen mode. Mypaint application allows the artists to work in a comfortable environment. Installation of MyPaint in Ubuntu is explained in this article.
Features
- Inking tool for smooth strokes.
- Flood Fill tool.
- Several masking modes
- Clearer icons and freehand cursors.
- Accelerator map editor
- Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.
Installation of MyPaint
First run the below command to add the required repository.
user1@linuxhelp1:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing
[sudo] password for user1:
A rolling build of releases and prereleases from github, where our main development takes place. We try to keep things in master and on the support branches fairly stable and tested, but things may still break with these experimental packages. Be warned! However, if you' re feeling brave, go right ahead and test them out. To add this repository, type the following 2 lines into a Terminal window:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing
$ sudo apt-get update
After which you can either go to the Software Center and choose packages from the " MyPaint testing PPA" under " Get Software" , or to install the lot type
$ sudo apt-get install mypaint mypaint-data-extras
* Homepage: http://mypaint.org/
* Upstream: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint
* Report bugs here: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/issues
* PPA debian tree repository: https://github.com/mypaint/debian
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
Next update the apt source-list with the given command.
user1@linuxhelp1:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/achadwick/mypaint-testing/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.6 kB]
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/achadwick/mypaint-testing/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,592 B]
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
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Fetched 117 kB in 1s (79.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Finally run the below command to install the Mypaint package.
user1@linuxhelp1:~$ sudo apt-get install mypaint
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
binutils cpp-5 g++-5 gcc-5 gcc-5-base libasan2 libatomic1 libblas-common
libblas3 libcc1-0 libcilkrts5 libgcc-5-dev libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1
liblapack3 liblsan0 libmpx0 libquadmath0 libstdc++-5-dev libstdc++6 libtsan0
libubsan0 mypaint-data python-cairo python-gi python-gi-cairo python-numpy
Suggested packages:
binutils-doc gcc-5-locales g++-5-multilib gcc-5-doc libstdc++6-5-dbg
gcc-5-multilib libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libitm1-dbg libatomic1-dbg
libasan2-dbg liblsan0-dbg libtsan0-dbg libubsan0-dbg libcilkrts5-dbg
libmpx0-dbg libquadmath0-dbg libstdc++-5-doc mypaint-data-extras gfortran
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Setting up mypaint (1.2.1~beta.1-0dev1ppa1~xenial1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
If you want to install supporting tools, just run the below command.
user1@linuxhelp1:~$ sudo apt-get install mypaint-data-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mypaint-data-extras
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 352 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 30.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/achadwick/mypaint-testing/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 mypaint-data-extras all 1.2.1~beta.1-0dev1ppa1~xenial1 [29.9 MB]
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Setting up mypaint-data-extras (1.2.1~beta.1-0dev1ppa1~xenial1) ...
Open the MyPaint app from Unity Dash as shown below.
Now start painting using Mypaint - The most comfortable painting tool!
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