Max Manders

I’m not one of the many ardent Microsoft haters that use Linux, and as such I’m quite open to taking full advantage of whatever software I can to get the job done, whether I’m in Linux or Windows. I really quite like Paint.Net which I’ve used on Windows as an alternative to Photoshop and the GIMP. You can now get Paint.Net on Linux courtesy of the Mono framework:

$ sudo apt-get install mono-common libmono* mono-gmcs
$ svn co http://paint-mono.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src paint-mono
$ cd paint-mono
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
$ paintdotnet

I’ve been informed by someone commenting on this post that the above doesn’t appear to work any more, the below is command line output of a successful install, hope it helps.

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://paint-mono.googlecode.com
   /files/paintdotnet-0.1.63.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz paintdotnet-0.1.63.tar.gz
$ ./configure
Looking for required packages
Checking for revision…
paintdotnet has been configured with
prefix = /usr/local
config = RELEASE_AND_PACKAGE_ANY_CPU
$ make
$ sudo make install
…
make post-install-local-hook prefix=/usr/local
…
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ ls -ltr | tail -n1
paintdotnet
$ ./paintdotnet