How to install Krita 3.3.2 released on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.10

   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 3.3.2 Changelog:
fixes two important regressions:

• Krita 3.3.1 would read brush presets with textures incorrectly. This is now fixed.
• Windows 1709 broke wintab and Windows Ink tablet handling in various ways; we worked around that and it works again in this version of Krita.

Additionally, there are the following fixes and improvements:

• Animation: make it possible to export empty frames after the end of the animation.
• Animation: make it possible to render up to a 10,000 frames
• Add a command-line option to start Krita with a new, empty image: krita --new-image RGBA,8,5000,3000
• Performance: improved caching for effect and selection masks
• Performance: Fix a leak in the smudge brush
• Performance: Improve performance when using the hardware-accelerated canvas
• Performance, Windows: improve the performance when loading icons
• macOS: render the frames-per-second overlay widget correctly
• Filters: it’s now possible to edit the filter’s settings directly in the xml that is used to save filter definitions to .krita files.
• Filters: a new ASC_CDL color balance filter was added, with Slope, Offset and Power options.
• Crashes: fix a crash that happened when closing a second document with infinite canvas active
• Layers: Make it possible to copy group layers
• UI: make it possible to use the scroll-wheel to scroll through patterns when the patterns palette is very narrow.
• UI: Improve drag and drop feedback in the layer panel
• UI: Hide the lock and collapse titlebar icons when a panel is floating
• G’Mic: the included G’Mic is updated to the latest release.

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

Install via package if PPA is not up to date

• Download the Linux appimage file
• Right-click on the file and click properties.

• Click on Permissions tab and check the box to make it executable

• Then run the file as it does not require any installation

Optional, to remove Krita, do:

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