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by ZenoArrow 3740 days ago
> "The only problem I see, which rises from my wifes experience, there is no simple Paint alternative, were you'd have very basic options (cropping, rotating and maybe some brush/text) with a decent UI to make changes to a photo/image"

How about Krita? It's more powerful than a basic Paint app but the UI looks just as intuitive.

https://krita.org/features/highlights/
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Rezo 3740 days ago
The webpage looks fantastic! Let's give Krita a shot.

I'm running arguable the most common Linux distro on this planet, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Let's follow the instructions, I like that they explicitly support Ubuntu. All right, three easy commands I'm familiar with (add PPA, update & install). That was easy! Let's launch it...

> krita: Critical Error Essential application components could not be found. This might be an installation issue. Try restarting, running kbuildsycoca4.exe or reinstalling.

I'm sure I'll figure it out, but a great first impression it isn't.

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majewsky 3740 days ago
If it's ksycoca4-related, try

  kbuildsycoca4 --no-incremental && sudo kbuildsycoca4 --global --no-incremental
Ugly, but it gets the job done. I don't seem to have needed that with KDE 5 applications, so maybe they fixed that, and Krita just needs to update (which AFAIK they're already working on).
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ZenoArrow 3740 days ago
The error is unfortunate, I agree it shouldn't happen, especially on a common distro like Ubuntu. Does running kbuildsycoca4 fix it?

http://linux.die.net/man/8/kbuildsycoca4

Krita should work fine on Ubuntu, but it's a KDE app, so guessing you've encountered a bug with running KDE apps on Ubuntu. Okay to discuss the issue on the Krita IRC channel or via a bug report?

https://krita.org/get-involved/report-a-bug/

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XorNot 3740 days ago
Pinta is good and included in Ubuntu repos by default. It's about Paint.net level.
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