How to install Krita 3.3.1 released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

Krita 3.3.1 Changelog:

• Krita would crash if you would restart Krita after closing Krita with the reference images docker set to floating
• Krita 3.3.0 could not read .kra backup files or .kra files that were unzipped, then zipped up manually.
• Fix a crash when creating a swap file on OSX
• Merge down does not remove locked layers anymore
• Various performance improvements, especially for macOS
• Improve the look and feel of dragging and dropping layers
• Improve the tooltips in the brush preset selector
• Fix a memory leak in the color selectors
• Fix rotation and tilt when using the Windows Ink api
• Don’t allow the fill tool to be used on group layers
• Add brightness and contrast sliders for textured brushes
• Add paste-at-cursor
• Improve performance of the cpu canvas
• Fix a crash on closing Krita when there is something on the clipboard
• Add a button to open a file layer’s image in Krita

Installation instructions:

    Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the Krita package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install krita

Optional, to remove Krita, do:

$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kritalime/ppa