How to install MyPaint on ubuntu

MyPaint is a most popular digital paint software for computer OS. It is same as windows paint application.

MyPaint began in 2004. It is a free and open-source application. MyPaint comes from the Linux art world, but it has Mac OS X and Windows ports too. 

Recently MyPaint v2.0.0-alpha Released. But the latest stable release is version 1.2 which was released on Jan. 15, 2016.

MyPaint v2.0.0 Alpha Extra Features:

• Spectral Paint/Pigment layer and brush mode
• Linear blending for non-pigment layers and brush modes
• Smudge enhancements
• Layer “views”
• Fullscreen improvements with autohide of toolbars
• Python3 compatibility
• A bunch of other stuff!

MyPaint v1.2.0 Features:

•     New intuitive Inking tool for smooth strokes.
•     New Flood Fill tool.
•     Automated backups of your working docs, with recovery on startup.
•     Improved symmetry-setting and frame-setting modes.
•     New workspace UI: two sidebars, with dockable tabbed panels.
•     Smoother scrolling and panning.
•     New brush pack.
•     New brush and color history panel.
•     New layer trimming command in frame options.
•     Added layer groups.
•     New layer modes: several masking modes added.
•     Add display filters: greyscale, simulate dichromacy for trichromats.
•     New color wheel options: Red/Yellow/Blue, Red-Green/Blue-Yellow.
•     Uses dark theme variant by default.
•     Clearer icons, prettier freehand cursors.
•     Device prefs allow glitchy devices to be restricted.
•     Eraser mode no longer changes the size of the brush.
•     New vector layers, editable in an external app (Inkscape recommended).
•     New fallback layer types: non-PNG image, data.
•     More kinds of images now work as backgrounds.
•     Improved Windows support
•     Ported to GTK3.
•     Accelerator map editor has moved to preferences.
•     Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.

MyPaint 1.2.0 Installation Process:
MyPaint is not in Ubuntu apt repo so that we can't install it until we add it to apt repository. We can add it to apt repo via ppa. So the installing process will as bellow.

Step - 1 : Open the terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and run the commend - 

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing

It will add mypaint to apt repo
Step - 2 : Now run commend to apt repo update - 

sudo apt update

It will take few moment to complete the update process.
Step - 3 : Now run mypaint install commend as bellow - 

sudo apt install mypaint

After some moment the installation process will complete.
Now you can use mypaint.

You can see this video for more details.

 

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