About Packages
Note that the Krita developers do not do packaging themselves. (Well, except for Windows, unfortunately.) We are dependent on Linux distributions to package Krita. Most do an excellent job!
If you want to build Krita yourself, you can get the source from the Calligra git project site. There is an excellent build guide available on the Calligra wiki. If you build manually, please follow that exactly: http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/Building_Calligra. You can also use the script to easily get the dependencies and build Calligra from source. Get it from the forum.
We do not have OSX packages. None of the Krita developers has an Apple computer, even. Volunteers to make OSX packages are very welcome! But until a volunteer steps up to do the work, there won't be a package for OSX.
Version 2.3
Krita 2.3 was part of KOffice. Some Linux distributions still package that version. But don't settle for it! Krita 2.4, is much better!
Version 2.4
Krita 2.4 was released on 11 April 2012. Some distributions may already have packages in their experimental repositories.
Windows
Please go to www.kogmbh.com/download.html to download the HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL Windows installer. For Krita 2.4, download the Calligra installer.
Note: the Krita developers have access to exactly one (1) Windows box. It runs Windows 7, 64 bits. The installer works fine on our system... If you have trouble getting Krita to run with the experimental installer, please contact us so we can improve our Windows installer. Without your feedback we won't ever learn what the possible problems are and the installer will remain EXPERIMENTAL.
Linux
Ubuntu
Kubuntu 12.04 will be the first distribution that contains Krita 2.4 in the default repositories.
For 11.10, packages are available through the following PPA:
ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
You can also use the Project Neon packages, which will keep you up to date with git master (which is Not Recommended for production work).
Ubuntu users can get a nightly build of Calligra with the Project Neon, you need to add ppa:neon/ppa to your sources.list and install project-neon-calligra package.
This script installs project neon and krita (just copy, paste in the konsole / terminal one line at a time):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install project-neon-base project-neon-calligra project-neon-calligra-dbg
In order to run the installed packages you have to logout and choose "Project Neon" from the login screen. Neon always has the latest version, not necessarily the beta releases.
Debian
The qt-kde debian project has packages available as well now,Follow these instructions:
Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main deb-src http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main
In order to get repository key, install the pkg-kde-archive-keyring
package:
aptitude install pkg-kde-archive-keyring
then you can install krita with :
apt-get install krita
OpenSUSE
- Calligra 2.4 packages are available from the KDE:Release:48 and KDE:Distro:Stable repositories for OpenSuse 11.4 and 12.1.
- Git snapshots are available from the unstable playground repository.
- Daily build git snapshots are provided here (note a focus on mobile/Plasma Active for these packages)
Visit http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.
Fedora
Fedora packages are available in the unstable repository of the KDE Packaging Project.
Gentoo
The ebuild for Calligra 2.4 is in the portage tree as: app-office/calligra-2.4.00. You can use this to install Krita as well; there might be newer versions as Calligra releases more beta's.
Arch
Arch Linux provides Calligra packages in the kde-unstable repository
FreeBSD
Packages are available in area51.
Unstable
Occasionally, Windows packages are created from the git master branch. These are extremely experimental. Fun to play with, but if you lose work, we don't lose sleep. Though we'd like to hear if that happens so we can fix the bug. Find the packages at http://www.kogmbh.com/download.html