Pinta: Gtk# Painting Program for Debian and MXLinux.

Pint is a free, open-source drawing and image editing program. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux.

Pinta is an easy-to-use drawing/editing program. It aims to provide a simplified experience for casual users.

This release brings many bug fixes and minor improvements to Pinta 1.7. This will likely be the final GTK2-based Pinta release, as the GTK3/.NET 6 version is almost ready.

Pinta can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, or *BSD. Because of this, there are several ways to install Pinta depending on the operating system you're using.

Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image editing and drawing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program limited to Microsoft Windows. Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared to the open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features.

Pinta is not included in the Debian 12 and MX-Linux 23.2 repositories.

Features include:

Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software, including drawing tools, image filters, and color adjustment tools. The focus on usability is reflected in several of the program's key features:

– Settings (auto level, black and white, sepia, …)
– Effects (Motion Blur, Glow, Warp, …)
– Multiple layers
– Unlimited undo/redo
– Drawing tools (brush, pencil, shapes, …)

Note: : on mxlinux and debian 12 version 1.7.1 works.
Download Pint Tarball 1.7-1 Stable: https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/old-releases

Compiling Pinta requires the following software:

These are all the dependencies that Pinta 1.7.1 needs to compile and install the program on Debian 12.

$ sudo apt install make automake autoconf mono-devel gtk-sharp2 autotools-dev autoconf-archive gettext intltool libgtk-3-dev webp-pixbuf-loader itstool libdb1-compat libxml2-utils mallard-rng python3-libxml2 yelp-tools libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil

Let's unzip the tarball to start compiling the drawing program:

// Descomprimir Tarball
$ tar -xzvf pinta-1.7.1.tar.gz

If you compile from a tarball, run:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

To uninstall Pinta, run:

$ sudo make uninstall

We now have Pinta fully functional on mxlinux 23.2.