The Krita ppa for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS

Published on 16 january 2016

Update July 2016: This article is outdated and with appimage I'm not using PPA anymore, if you have new information about the PPA, leave them in the comment! thank you.

The Krita team has an official ppa ( named Krita Lime ). This ppa provides fresh versions of Krita for Linux Mint 17.3 , Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ( and Ubuntu-testing 15.10 ) and Elementary Freya 0.3 users. To install Krita via this ppa, copy the code lines one by one ( Ctrl + C in your browser ) and paste them one by one in a terminal windows ( Ctrl + Shift + V ) then press enter.
Note: You can only install a single version of Krita on your system.

Krita 2.9

This is the last release of Krita, in the 2.9.x series.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install krita-2.9

Krita animation 2.9 beta

This is a popular beta release ( in progress ) with the features 'animation' and 'level of details'.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dimula73/krita  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install krita-animation-testing

External links :

Ppa page for more info : https://launchpad.net/~dimula73/+archive/krita
Original Dmitry's (maintainer of the PPA and Krita developper ) blog : http://dimula73.blogspot.fr