Jun 2, 2008
A nice alternative to GIMP on Ubuntu
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
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
moh
Thanks for the tip. I am at step 3. cd paint-mono at the ubuntu terminal.
the error I get is bash: cd: paint-mono: no such file or directory.
I guess I am trying to create the directory on the my desktop, how can I create the directory in the right place. Sorry I am a noob with ubuntu..
Thanks for your time.
May 30th, 2009
moh
And none of the commands after the top 2 work: as shown below:
bash: cd: paint-mono: No such file or directory
xyz@xyz-desktop:~$
xyz@xyz-desktop:~$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
xyz@xyz-desktop:~$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
xyz@xyz-desktop:~$ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install’. Stop.
xyz@xyz-desktop:~$ paintdotnet
bash: paintdotnet: command not found
May 30th, 2009
maxmanders
I’m sorry you’ve not had any luck with this, unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be in any Ubuntu repositories yet, anyway, here’s my terminal output – 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
The steps above worked for me. If you are having problems I can only assume there are unmet dependencies. Unfortunately I’m not a .Net or Mono developer, but I have a familiarity with Linux. If you’re still having problems I’d give the following a try first:
$ sudo apt-get install mono-common mono-runtime mono-utils
Jun 6th, 2009
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