How to install Krita 5.2.9 released on Ubuntu 24.04

     Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch. Krita is optimized for frequent, prolonged and focused use. Explicitly supported fields of painting are illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. Developed together with users, Krita is an application that supports their actual needs and workflow. Krita supports open standards and interoperates with other applications.

 

   Krita 5.2.9! This is a bug fix release, containing all bugfixes of our bug hunt efforts back in November. Major bug-fixes include fixes to clone-layers, fixes to opacity handling, in particular for file formats like Exr, a number of crash fixes and much more! 

 

Krita 5.2.9 Changelog:  

Add shortcuts to bezier curve and freehand path

Fix original offsets not being accounted for when copying from another document (Bug 490998)

Fix updates when copy-pasting multiple nodes into a new document

Fix infinite loop when trying to update pass-through nodes (Bug 493774, Bug 493830, Bug 493837)

Fix Photobash Crash

Bug fix: Added A1 and A2 sizes when creating a document

Fix a crash when trying to merge down a layer created after a reference image addition

Possibly fix saving EXR files with extremely low alpha values

Fix infinite loop when a clone layer is connected to a group with clones

Dynamic brush tool shouldn't load the saved smoothing configuration (Bug 493249)

Fix bogus offset when saving EXR with moved layers

Try to keep color space profile when saving EXR of incompatible type

For more, see the announcement. 

 

Installation instructions:

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

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/krita $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install krita

    Optional, to remove Krita, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove --autoremove krita