The Mypaint ppa for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS

Published on 13 february 2016

( screenshot : Mypaint from ppa on Linux Mint 17.3 cinnamon 64bit on February 2016. )

[original article posted on august 2011, last update: Feb 2016]
The Mypaint main developper Andrew Chadwick maintains a ppa. This ppa provides fresh versions of Mypaint for Linux Mint 17.3 , Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ( and Ubuntu-testing 15.10 ) and Elementary Freya 0.3 users. To install Mypaint 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.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mypaint mypaint-data-extras

External links :

Ppa page for more info : https://launchpad.net/~achadwick/+archive/ubuntu/mypaint-testing